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TIL Singapore pretty much locked away a man for 32 years, from 1966 to 1998, for "conducting communist activities". This included a 9-year stint on a resort island where he lived in a guardhouse.

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xjpo TIL The final words of Terry Kath (from the band Chicago) were “Don’t worry, it’s not loaded” whilst playing with guns
ADQZ4 TIL a mother suffers from hyperlactation syndrome, an over production of breastmilk. Instead of dumping her milk she decided to donate them. She spends 4-5 hours each day pumping milk and in two years she has donated 609 gallons of breastmilk, most going to feeding premature babies.
awBZN TIL about Wholphins, a rare cross between a whale and a dolphin. First recorded in 1981 in captivity, but also found in the wild.
YpmOP Today I learned that "went" used to be the past tense of "wend" not go. Go's past particle was gaed.
XPKE TIL that the Jonestown mass suicide in 1978 was responsible for the largest loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act prior to September 11, 2001