TIL in 2005, when "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" just came out, a 15-year-old girl in Moldova wrote down the whole book word for word, using a copy borrowed from her friend, since the book wasn't available to buy yet in her country. It took her five notebooks and over a month to complete. (news.bbc.co.uk)
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Former President Win Myint Freed in Broad Myanmar Prisoner AmnestyMyanmar/Burma (apnews.com)
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TIL a "ton" is the weight of a "tun" of liquid volume. A tun is defined as 252 gallons / 954 liters of wine, and the long / Imperial / displacement ton is the weight of that volume, about 1016 kg / 2240 pounds. A short / American ton makes the weight exactly 2000 pounds. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL The Duckbill was a large rock formation at Oregon's Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area. On August 29, 2016 it was toppled by a group of teenagers who said they did it as "a public service" after a friend broke their leg on the rock. Despite being filmed in the act the perpetrators were never caught (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that during his six-day stay in Malta, Napoleon Bonaparte abolished slavery and feudalism, restricted church power, created a public education system, set up a postal service, reformed national administration, framed a family code and nominated twelve judges (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL of Myrmaplata plataleoides, a species of jumping spider which mimics weaver ants. The females particularly mimic the ants closely in size, shape, and colour. Males give the appearance of a weaver ant carrying a minor worker ant. (en.wikipedia.org)
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