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TIL Penal colony of Australia had its own penal colony on Tasmania for people who reoffended after being sent there

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xROg TIL that 20/20 vision isn’t actually “perfect”, and that professional baseball players average around 20/12 vision; greater acuity than conventional eye charts test for.
oBoMW TIL in 2012 authorities discovered over 1,500 pieces of stolen art valued at 1.3 billion in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt. Cornelius never held a job and lived alone surrounded by the art for 40 years. These pieces were to be part of Hitler's Fuhrermuseum.
dD4lE TIL while studying flight or fight a biologist grouped guppies in 3 categories "bold" (inspect threat), ordinary (hide), timid (flee). He then put a bass in with the guppies, 40 percent of the timid guppies and 15 percent of the ordinary guppies survived while none of the bold guppies did.
M7ODA TIL a one-legged clown was convicted of murdering an heiress in Chicago in 1912 and was sentenced to life in prison, but he escaped and was never found.
ZL7o TIL That the death of Henry Moseley, the man who discovered atomic number and thus why the order of the periodic table worked, was “the most costly single death of the war to mankind generally”