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TIL: a man spent two years in solitary confinement without ever being charged…

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mxxxO TIL that for his aborted film project ’Napoleon Bonaparte,’ Stanley Kubrick amassed one of worlds most extensive and well-documented archives on the French emperor. He spent decades and thousand of dollars preparing for film because he was reportedly “unimpressed by every Napoleon film ever made.”
xVEEw TIL that although they spend 16 hours a day in water hippos can't swim because they are too muscular and sink. Instead they just run around under the surface.
ObX TIL Nasa is investigating hidden portals In Earths Magnetic Field
d8RBr TIL that a sleeping dragon is a homemade device protesters use that invovles handcuffing arms together in a PVC pipe and use other materials to make it harder for police to cut through
v146j TIL that during the Apollo 10 mission a turd was found floating around the spacecraft in zero gravity, but none of the astronauts on board would admit that it was theirs.