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TIL Somali piracy emerged from an effort by local fisherman to fight against the often-illegal operations of foreign fishing vessels

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E1AJx TIL Hepatitis C is the most common cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer. From it's discovery in 1989, it took less than 25 years to identify, model and create an oral treatment that can completely cure a person in 8-12 weeks. 1-2% of the world population has HepC. Most don't even know it.
e9n TIL In 1998 Venus and Serena Williams said they could beat any man ranked 200 or worse; both lost handedly to a man ranked #203, who smoked between the matches.
L9gm TIL in 2008 the entire nation of Japan had 11 total firearm related homicides
b94pE TIL: the 1973 Cheech & Chong song "Basketball Jones" features George Harrison & Carole King.
7ZjX TIL Viggo Mortensen collaborated with guitarist Buckethead on an album dedicated to Noam Chomsky.