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TIL a group of native Americans occupied Alcatraz for 14 months before being forcibly removed by the federal government.

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7RWX TIL In 1965, a U.S. Army sergeant drunkenly deserted his company, wandered into North Korea, and was forced to be an interpreter, actor, teacher, and father by the North Korean regime until his release..wait for it..39 years later, in 2004.
E196w TIL in 1981, a German landlord evicted a tenant after they spread surströmming brine, the world's smelliest food, in the building's stairwell. When the landlord was taken to court, the court ruled in favor of the landlord after they demonstrated their case by opening a can inside the courtroom.
MvoK TIL that Micheal Keaton was a stagehand on Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood stating, “He was the same off camera as he was on, and everything was fresh–the music, the opening number. Nothing was ever canned.”
M7AOA TIL that people who live in cities are 30% more likely to be depressed than people living in rural areas
9wpG TIL a muslim wikipedia editor contributed to 8,115 separate Wikipedia articles with over 67,000 edits until being caught in 2010, focusing efforts on improving the image of Islam and downplaying the achievements of the Western world, misrepresentations which were then reproduced all over the net.