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TIL Convicted spy Robert Hanssen frequently visited a stripper to give her gifts in an attempt to convert her to Catholicism

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xVZmb TIL Hawaii still has an active leper colony
KYyRa TIL Besides humans, the only mammal known to have a sense of rhythm is the Indri lemur of Madagascar.
GAG44 TIL "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein was banned by a number of libraries and schools across the United States.
wLgvM TIL that a British midshipman, Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave, managed to survive the torpedoing and sinking of three different warships -- within the space of about an hour
e0LgE TIL the Amazon river was named by Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana. After skirmishes with a native tribe whose women fought alongside the men, Orellana derived the name from the Amazons described in Greek myth.