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TIL 3 men escaped Alcatraz in a raft made of raincoats. The FBI never found them.

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5YLkB TIL That the animals Americans call "buffalo" are actually not buffalo at all. They are called bison. Buffalo and bison are in the same family, but not closely related.
LQWP9 TIL the word candidate comes from the Latin word for white; candidus, because Roman senators wore white togas.
e9w6 TIL France has become the first nation in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away or destroying unsold food, forcing them instead to donate it to charities and food banks.
WajL TIL Charles Darwin collected a Galápagos tortoise during his 1835 visit to the Galápagos Islands as part of his round-the-world survey expedition. It lived 175 years and died of heart failure at the Australia Zoo in 2006.
oRNAK TIL the Black Death was partially caused by a mass execution of cats due to supposed association with the Devil, allowing rats and their fleas to rapidly spread.