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TIL about the SS Automedon, a British cargo ship that, in 1940, was captured by the Nazi merchant raider Atlantis along with top-secret intel on the U.K's ability to fight Japan. The intel was passed on to Japan, which led to Pearl Harbour and the fall of Singapore.

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x69e0 TIL Kalaallisut is the principal language used by all native Greenlanders and most of them are bilingual in Danish, and trilingual, with English. But in Nunavut, Canada, young Inuit prefer to use English and most cannot speak in Inuktitut about everyday life
a8WEL TIL that Louisiana State Penitentiary ("Angola"), the largest maximum-security prison in the USA, has a radio station, a TV station, a magazine, a fire station, sugarcane fields, market gardens and herds of cattle and horses
x61W0 TIL King James the First liked to play tennis. He knocked so many balls off the court and down an old drain leading from the abbey that he ordered for the passage to be blocked. 3 days later, assassins arrived to kill him. He tried to escape through the passage but it was blocked and he was murdered
BRed TIL Canada’s debt has increased 25.4% since ‘Conservative’ Stephen Harper was first elected as PM in 2006.
5pyQ TIL: President Nixon’s daughter married President Eisenhower’s grandson.