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TIL that Alcatraz island is a federally protected bird sanctuary for a variety of different sea birds!

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xV6r5 TIL that in early August 2017, a people smuggler off the coast of Yemen deliberately drowned at least 29 teenage migrants. The average age of the migrants was 16.
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.
wLQY6 TIL that Michelangelo hid under the Medici Chapel in Florence for 3 months during a period of political turmoil, occupying his time by sketching on the walls with charcoal. His whereabouts were a secret for almost 500 years until the museum director stumbled upon the drawings in 1976.
xV1ak TIL There is a biker gang in Arizona that protects children from their child abusers in court, at home and on the streets while the abuser is being prosecuted.
B9xy TIL Bruce Willis was forced to sign a three picture deal with Disney after he pulled out of ‘The Broadway Brawler’, a romantic comedy about a hockey player. The three movies he made were 'Armageddon’, 'The Sixth Sense’, and 'The Kid.’ The movies combined to gross an estimated 1.3 billion worldwide