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TIL in effort to keep morale high for WWII troops fighting in the Pacific, the British built a floating brewery and dispatched it to the South Seas

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Oo9XY TIL Thomas Grasso's last meal was two dozen mussels, two dozen clams, a Burger King double cheeseburger, six barbecued ribs, two strawberry shakes, half a pumpkin pie, diced strawberries, and spaghetti. His final statement: I did not get my SpaghettiOs, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this
oB4XE TIL about the Tucker State Prison Farm scandal, in which inmates were routinely beaten, tortured with needles under their fingernails, and had their genitals crushed with pliers and electrocuted. Up to 200 inmates may have been murdered and buried around the prison.
OrdX TIL that the “Cheerleader Effect” (people look more attractive when they’re in a group than when they’re alone) coined by Barney Stinson in the TV Show ‘How I Met Your Mother’ has been the subject of a scientific study which confirmed the theory.
Bg8nd TIL The Independent Order of Odd Fellows exists for more than 200 years. The guys are non-political fraternity of — you got it — Odd Fellowship. Oddly, their motto is Friendship, Love and Truth
9XYG TIL that in 1599, a Spanish governor in early colonial Ecuador was executed by having molten gold poured down his throat.