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TIL that the Austrian football club Rapid Vienna won the 1941 German championship during Nazi rule

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7Ejx TIL the longest prison sentence ever given was 384,912 years long for failing to deliver mail.
R5pra TIL Gotham City, from the DC Universe, is located in New Jersey
Oo7o6 TIL the SS Richard Montgomery was an American Ship during WW2 that was carrying 7000 tons of munitions to Europe which sank and today holds thousands of tons of explosives and ammo near London.
QJEJk TIL an Australian broadcaster banned an episode of Peppa Pig that taught that “spiders can’t hurt you” after complaints it was unsuitable for Australian audiences.
VB4o0 TIL that April Fool's Day has existed since at least the mid-sixteenth century. The earliest unambiguous reference is a poem published in 1561 by the Flemish writer Eduard De Dene, which described a nobleman who sent his servant back and forth on various absurd errands on April 1st