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AXrB TIL Undercover cops in England had children with the political activists they were spying on
LQLW0 TIL There is an actual Rhode Island in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Despite being the state's namesake and the island's "original" name, no one calls it that, and the locals have colloquially renamed it to Aquidneck Island.
P1gVe TIL all the previous members of Three 6 Mafia have died, except Crunchy Black who was also almost murdered.
xnG5 TIL Chuck Palahniuk submitted his first novel, Invisible Monsters to publishers who rejected the novel saying they were disturbed by its content. Palahniuk then began work on another novel to disturb them further. That book was Fight Club.
vPa0B TIL about the BAC Three-Eleven, a proposed widebody airliner that would have competed with the Airbus A300.