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TIL there are no narwhals kept in captivity. All attempts to do so have been unsuccessful

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kMEg TIL that the reason we have access to so much free online porn, is mostly because of a man named Fabian Thylmann, who bought up many of the paid pornography sites and made them free; gaining revenue through ads instead.
O51a TIL at age 47 Al Capone regressed to the mental capacity of a 12 year-old-child due to brain damage caused by the neurosyphilis and spent the last years of his life in his Florida mansion raving about Communists, foreigners, and Bugs Moran, who he was convinced was plotting to kill him.
1ad9V TIL Martin Van Buren is presently the only US President who spoke English as a second language.
oBMP7 TIL The first female prisoner to be force fed was fighting for birth control
5kyQ TIL 77 million Americans are served by water systems that violate testing requirements or rules about contamination in drinking water