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TIL Guantanamo Bay is sometimes nicknamed “Strawberry Fields” after the Beatles song because detainees could be held there “forever.”

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b9b70 TIL, Lake Angelus is Michigan's least populated locale to be legally designated as a "city", with a population of 290
gMVOy TIL a man robbed The Ballagio Casino of $1m in poker chips - that he could only spend at the Bellagio. In a matter of weeks weeks he was down to $20K, spending his winnings on OxyContin, more gambling, and one night a four-hour hand job.
DKvj TIL that when actor Glenn Shadix died in 2010 (who played Otho in the 1988 film ‘Beetlejuice’) the song 'Day-O’ by Harry Belafonte was played at his memorial service, a song he helped repopularize in that film’s famous dinner-party scene.
xVvno TIL that in WWII, President George H. W. Bush was shot down along with nine other US Airmen over Chichi Jima, an island held by the Japanese. He was the only one that was not caught, tortured, and murdered. Four of the others were eaten.
YpAvr TIL that New Zealand is not part of of any of the world's seven recognized continents, and is in fact situated upon the submerged continent of Zealandia.