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TIL about “sex offenders island”. Washington’s McNeil Island houses 214 sex offenders too dangerous to be released following prison. Annual reviews for release include a penile plethysmography, a tool designed to measure sexual arousal.

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GYolG TIL that Jack Nicholson grew up thinking the woman who gave birth to him was his sister. When he was 37 years old, he found out that his sister was actually his mother.
a8Npo TIL the Lenni Lenape, the Native American tribe indigenous to the area between CT & DE, played a sport where 2 teams: 1 all men & 1 all women try to get a ball into the other's goal. The women can carry/pass/kick the ball & tackle. The men couldn't tackle & could only kick/dislodge the ball.
GYLxJ TIL the guard of the tomb of the unknown solider does not wear any rank insignias so as to not outrank any of the "unknown" soldiers.
P6mJ TIL Alan Tudyk has had a role in every Disney animated film since “Wreck-It Ralph, including the Duke of Weselton in "Frozen”, and a character named Duke Weaselton in “Zootopia”
eGBb TIL handling TNT turned female munition workers in the UK yellow during WWI; they were nicknamed the Canary Girls