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TIL of Beirut's Grudge House. After disputes with his brother over land inherited from their father, a man built a thin, three-storey building just to hide his brother's view of the sea.

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8yoG TIL despite making up only 8% of the population of Saskatchewan, aboriginals make up 76% of the inmate population.
MbGA TIL that Daniel Day-Lewis, while playing Hamlet, collapsed, sobbing uncontrollably, during the scene where the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears. He later said that he saw the ghost of his own father, and has not appeared on stage since then.
1aZvr TIL Stalin had a cerebral haemorrhage and lay on a couch in his room. People were afraid of entering his room. It took until 22:30 for anybody to check on him. He died after three days.
8lEG TIL that porn star Haley Paige got married on August 2nd, 2007, and died August 21st that month. Her husband, who never got charged with anything, died the next month.
rNwX1 TIL the critically endangered Panamanian golden frog is being bred in captivity in order to preserve the species.