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TIL All prisoners in Norway have internet in their cells.

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G81J TIL it’s illegal to masturbate if you’re incarcerated in a U.S. prison
wL8ZE 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.
NPoJ 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
69NMX 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
GYyoj TIL: 7,000 years ago, the Sahara Desert and the Arabian desert were actually grassland suitable for pastoral farming