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Green Boots

on Sat Dec 24 2022

This is “Green Boots,” an Indian climber who died in 1996 on Mount Everest and whose dead body now serves as a landmark that climbers use to gauge how near they are to the summit. “G.B.” is one of over 200 other human trail guides and grave reminders of the deathly perils of Mount Everest […]

The Hague Invasion Act

on Thu Dec 22 2022

In 2002, a year before the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. passed ‘the Hague Invasion Act’ that says if the International Criminal Court (located in The Hague, the Netherlands) tried to charge any American for war crimes, the U.S. can invade the Netherlands with military force to liberate them MediaLink via /r/DamnthatsinterestingRedditLink

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