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TIL of the first worldwide manhunt in recorded history: In 1695, English “King of pirates” Henry Every led the most profitable pirate raid in history, capturing a Mughal ship containing jewels worth £97.1 million today. This resulted in an unprecedented £1.000,- bounty, which was never collected.
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TIL that the largest recorded temperature change over a 24 hour period occurred in Loma, Montana in 1972. It was -54 degrees Fahrenheit at 9 AM on January 14th, and 49 degrees Fahrenheit at 8 AM on January 15th. This was an overall rise of 103 degrees Fahrenheit (57.2 degrees Celsius).
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TIL The ancient Egyptians believed that the heart recorded all of the good and bad deeds of a person’s life, and was needed for judgment in the afterlife. After death, the heart was weighed against the feather of Maat. If a person had led an unjust life, their heart was too heavy to enter paradise
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TIL of Douglas Adams’s posthumous role as Agrajag in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio series. Adams never recorded the lines for Agrajag and was dead by the time the BBC revived the series. Agrajag’s lines are actually clips from Adams’s reading of his books, recorded many years before.
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