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TIL that UK has started Minister of Loneliness, currently held by Tracey Crouch, after growing consensus that loneliness is a public health concern.

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gr5yW TIL Washington Crossing the Delaware was painted by a German-born artist and the original was destroyed by allied bombing during World War II.
g6nb TIL the U.S. government has an FBI-led group called the Domestic Surveillance Alliance Council (DSAC), which shares vast streams of personal data with over 200 of the largest corporations in the world, including Citibank, Coca-Cola, and Federal Express.
yQbg8 TIL of Pheasant Island, which for over 350 years switches countries every six months between Spain and France
kOonB TIL of Pedro Rodrigues Filho, a serial killer who killed most of his victims as revenge including his own father who killed his mother, a group of gangsters who killed his girlfriend, and 47 other inmates in jail. It is suspected that he had over 100 victims
4XGBN TIL What the sheet music painted on the butt of one of the subjects in the Hieronymus Bosch painting 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' sounds like, and it's kind of incredible