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TIL the youngest prisoner ever at Guantanamo was 13 and since it has been open, 21 children have been imprisoned there since it’s inception.

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4XEkg TIL of "The Immortal Game", a casual match between chess grand masters in the interim of the first international chess tournament. Despite not being an official match, it is considered one of the most famous matches of all time.
4XvJJ TIL of the "world's richest Indian." Jackson Barnett who was from the Muscogee Native American tribe had as much as $24 million worth of oil under his Oklahoma property. Due to Barnett's illiteracy he was denied access to his estate and died in relative poverty.
5oG9 [TIL] In his multiple record breaking Stratos space dive, Felix Baumgartner opened his parachute early to allow his mentor Col. Joseph Kittinger the dignity of retaining his own record for longest free fall
v14BR TIL: More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another's scientist's experiments
9gPp TIL a fully loaded C-130 Hercules can carry $2.4b in cash. In 2003, twenty-one shipments of American cash totaling 363 tonnes were flown into Iraq. $6.6b of that money is totally unaccounted for and could be the largest cash theft in American history.