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TIL All prisoners in Norway have internet in their cells.
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TIL it’s illegal to masturbate if you’re incarcerated in a U.S. prison
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TIL that the military salute comes from when medieval knights used to raise their visors so that senior officers would recognise them, and developed from there.
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TIL an annual tradition at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is a double feature viewing of The Thing and The Shining after the last flight has left for the winter
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TIL that Caesar used the knowledge that the calendar was out of alignment and that it was Autumn instead of Winter and thus safe to sail to beat a blockade and win the civil war against Pompey
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TIL: 7,000 years ago, the Sahara Desert and the Arabian desert were actually grassland suitable for pastoral farming