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TIL Louisiana State Penitentiary was founded as a slave plantation, and is still run as a prison farm to this day

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EgbvX TIL that Brenda Song and Jenny Mai are not the same person.
4kB6N TIL the Persian Gulf was once a very fertile and inhabited valley having flooded during the start of recorded history during the time of the Sumerians
x65MB TIL about structural colouration. ‘Structural coloration in animals, and a few plants, is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible light instead of pigments…’
ZxkY TIL that the Bible has been translated entirely into LOLCat speak and is now available in book form.
mgRY TIL that in South Asia widowed women were once routinely burned alive on their husbands’ funeral pyres. A British general outlawed it, saying “This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile… But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them.”