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Today I Learned that there was an 870-person-capacity jail boat moored off Riker's Island in NYC which was in use as recently as last year.

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XEMZP TIL the Battle of the Eclipse, the last battle in a 6 year war between the Medes and the Lydians in 6th century BC, came to a sudden halt when a solar eclipse turned day into night. Both armies halted fighting and reached a peace agreement.
4xk6 TIL that the Peregrine Falcon hunts by diving at 230+ mph straight down, and killing its prey on impact with a balled foot. It kills other birds with a literal falcon punch.
GJRQ TIL that the total size of the Google Earth database is over 20 Petabytes.
VQ0m Today I learned of the “tiny house movement” where single people and couples live in houses as small as 120 sq. feet to have a smaller environmental impact on the world and to use money saved on other things…
Ol64 TIL of Amelia Dyer who is one of the most prolific serial killers in history and is estimated to have killed 200-400 children