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TIL Alfred George Hinds today remains remembered as one of the most celebrated British prison break artists. During his life he managed to escape from not one, but three heavily guarded prisons, all in attempt to prove his innocence to the English legal system.

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9YpJG TIL that after gay Vietnam War veteran Leonard Matlovich died, his epitaph said this: ''When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men, and a discharge for loving one.''
oBV1A TIL Charles Morgan, an escrow agent working for the FBI and 2 big crime groups, was found shot in the back of the head. He had on a bullet proof vest, had a map to the location his body was found, had his tooth in his pocket & a bill with a bible reference. It was ruled suicide.
Aywl TIL there are Silent Discos out there, where there can be up to three different DJs spinning music at the same time, and everyone in the club can listen to any of the DJs through headphones. Observers without headphones would see a bunch of people dancing to silence.
w7YP TIL that the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 allows the President to “suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens” who “would be detrimental to the interests of the United States”
woPNo TIL despite her repeated claims of being more than 85% accurate, a 2013 article found that Sylvia Browne, who claimed to be a psychic, was accurate in none of her 33 predictions. For instance, she predicted that she would die at the age of 88, but she passed away at the age of 77.