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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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XENr TIL Samuel L. Jackson requested to have a purple lightsaber in order to make his character stand out in the Star Wars films
08ML TIL of a rare chronic sleep disorder called Fatal Familial Insomnia, which renders the victim unable to sleep. One man diagnosed with the illness, Michael Corke, died a month after his 42nd birthday, by which time he had been completely sleep-deprived for six months. It has no known cure.
9wPZD TIL Carlos Santana hears from angels since reading a book about them from a Milwaukee airport. Since 1994, the high-angel Metatron speaks through him ("like a fax machine") & convinced him to make an album. This became the Grammy-sweeping "Supernatural"— which includes "Smooth [ft. Rob Thomas]"
ADEDo TIL that after Hurricane Isaаc, an American Rеd Crоss official sent out 80 empty or near-empty trucks and emergеncy rеsponse vеhicles (ERVs) to drive around and look like they were giving reliеf - and after Hurricane Sаndy, 15 ERVs (40% of the available ERVs) were assіgned to publіc relаtions
jNJGp TIL: After Pearl Harbor, all U.S. currency in Hawaii was replaced with specially marked bills in case the Japanese seized the island.