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TIL Clancy Brown who plays the sadistic corrections officer Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption also voices Mr. Krabs in Spongebob Squarepants.

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X9yE TIL that Black and White American’s use different variations of sign language (American Sign Language and Black American sign Language) because like other schools, schools for the deaf and blind were also segregated. BASL is still taught in the South, despite segregation no longer existing.
KOl9Q TIL that starting in 1985, Australia built 22 small maritime patrol boats which it then donated (yes, donated) to a dozen Pacific island nations. In some cases these vessels are the only meaningful naval presence these nations possess.
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