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TIL most black neighborhoods in Wisconsin are actually prisons.

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poXO TIL that in March 2011, a Brazilian man from Rio de Janeiro saved a penguin that was covered in oil. Since then, the penguin visits the man every year.
eA0D TIL that one out of every 4 million lobsters is born with a rare genetic defect that turns the lobster blue.
P1MbJ TIL airline ticket pricing is so convoluted, it's mathematically impossible to create an algorithm to select the best price for a flight (the problem is undecidable)
loeXN TIL The most easterly Führer Headquarters was located in Ukraine. Hitler spent 3 months in it in 1942 and issued his fateful Directive 45 trying to reach both Stalingrad and the Caucasus oil fields simultaneously from that place
jWxM TIL that Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the respected commander of German forces in East Africa during WW1 was offered a job by Hitler in 1935. He told Hitler to “go fuck himself” though other reports say he didn’t “put it that politely.”