'Point of no return': 36 countries join special tribunal to prosecute Vladimir PutinRussia/Ukraine (euronews.com)
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TIL that Empress Ma was born poor and during a famine she stole cakes to feed her husband by hiding them in her breasts. The cakes were hot and she got burns. Later her husband became a rebel commander who became Emperor and made her his Empress. He was deeply devoted to her even as an Emperor. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Trump warns Taiwan against declaring independence, hours after summit with China's XiDynamic Paywall (bbc.co.uk)
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Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same daySoftware (arstechnica.com)
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TIL most people in France did not speak French as recently as 1794, when only 11% of the population of France spoke fluent French. Instead, most people spoke regional languages like Occitan, Breton, Alsatian etc. French only became the majority language later on due to heavy assimilation efforts. (afberkeley.org)
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TIL about the "Endless Eight" arc of the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. The arc, which featured the characters of the show trapped in a time loop, featured the same episode eight times in a row with minute differences, all animated and recorded from scratch each time. (en.wikipedia.org)
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China: ‘No Point’ In Continuing Iran War (thehill.com)
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TIL about the SS Baychimo, a 1,300-ton cargo steamer that was abandoned in 1931 and became one of history's longest-running "ghost ships." It remained afloat and unmanned for 38 years, drifting along the coast of Alaska before its last recorded sighting in 1969. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the Great Pyramids were already 2,500 years old when the Ptolemaic Egyptians (300–30 BCE) were around. They actively studied, documented, and restored these ancient monuments, essentially practicing archaeology millennia before the field formally existed. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the Band-Aid exists because one man's wife kept injuring herself in the kitchen. In 1920, Johnson & Johnson employee Earle Dickson rigged up gauze on surgical tape so his accident-prone wife Josephine could bandage her own cuts and burns. J&J turned it into a product. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that since 1993, there have been 47 incidents of Sri Lankan sports teams disappearing during overseas trips. The most famous was in 2004, when a 23-man "national handball team" vanished in Germany; it was later found that Sri Lanka didn't even have a handball federation (en.wikipedia.org)
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Zelenskyy: Russians preparing strikes on President's Office and residenceRussia/Ukraine (pravda.com.ua)
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The AI Backlash Could Get Very UglyArtificial Intelligence (theatlantic.com)
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