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TIL in 2010, a Florida jail forced some inmates to watch The Polar Express on repeat. One inmate filed a lawsuit claiming that "I hear those little kids screaming through my brain,"

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bWwp TIL that the Church of Scientology created WhoIsPaulHaggis.com to besmirch him (and many others) after leaving the church.
6aQl TIL the first service animal training schools were established in Germany during World War I to enhance the mobility of returning veterans who were blinded in combat.
Nrl6 TIL Russia secretly had maps so detailed of the Canadian Arctic during the Cold-War that other ships now use them over official maps.
Ooyp4 TIL Joe Kennedy, JFK's father, made a fortune as a stock market and commodity investor before cashing in all his stocks just days before the stock market crash of 1929. Consequentially, he was one of the few people who vastly increased their fortune during the great depression.
O1ee TIL that in the state of Ohio 5,400 people are selected WEEKLY to prove they have active car insurance. If a person fails to do so their license is automatically suspended.