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TIL Camp 1391 is a secret prison 1 hour from Tel Aviv, dubbed “the Israeli Guantanamo”. It was discovered by accident in 2003 by an israeli historian while researching old british police buildings

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JYZGv TIL there was a paramilitary socialist group in Canada in the 1960s that wanted to overthrow their provincial government with an armed revolution. The only peace time use of Canada's War Measures Act was to stop them. The group was in contact with the KGB, and the top members were exiled to Cuba.
nkZP TIL the US House of Representatives was banned from editing Wikipedia after staff were caught making “persistent disruptive edits”, including naming former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld as an alien wizard who eats Mexican babies.
ANZ8l TIL that the Titanic was not the first ship of it's production line. With the Titanics sister ship, the Olympic (which was only 3 inches shorter and 1000 tons lighter than the Titanic), having already served as a successful cruise liner for a whole year before the Titanics fateful maiden voyage.
6KnZ TIL that New York City doesn’t have sales tax for clothing items under $110
klyW TIL Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.