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TIL Netherlands Closed Eight Prisons Due To Lack Of Criminals

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N7YAN TIL that Taron Egerton sang “I’m Still Standing” by Elton John as the Gorilla in the movie “Sing” prior to starring in the movie “Rocket Man” as Elton John where he sings the same song.
XEnKP TIL that 14 of the 26 members of the Da Silva family in Brazil have 6 fingers on each hand due to a genetic condition called polydactyly
j85n TIL NASA validated space drive engine technology it had been dismissing as impossible for years. this engine converts electric power into thrust with no need for propellant. NASA can not explain how it works, but has named it the “quantum vacuum plasma thruster”
7rbKr TIL that while young Robert E. Lee worked surveying the boundary between Ohio and Michigan, he jokingly referred in a letter to a snake he killed in a lighthouse as the lighthouse's keeper. Lee's biographer Douglas Southall Freeman misinterpreted this as an admission that Lee killed a human keeper.
awmYJ TIL there's a language in Turkey that's whistled