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TIL There’s a prime number in the U.S. that is illegal to physically possess.

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Erjd TIL more than 500 Indian workers were lured into working for shipyards in America with the promise of American citizenship. The company sent them into a labor camp, held their passports, extorted them with lies about various fees, and threatened them with legal and physical harm.
9YDGG TIL that the country of Kiribati has the most advanced time on Earth (UTC+14 hours), and the entire country is spread across all four hemispheres in an expanse of ocean equivalent in size to the continental United States.
5VV5n TIL Spanish conquistadors went exploring all the way up to Kansas in the 1500s
78rKL TIL in 2008 Morgan Spurlock (director of Super Size Me) made a movie called 'Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?'. Later on the CIA revealed that Osama bin Laden himself had a copy of the film at his hideout in Pakistan.
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