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TIL showers in Alcatraz had only one heat setting which was moderately hot so that the inmates couldn’t acclimate to the surrounding waters.

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b9blN TIL the biomass of domesticated poultry is about three times higher than that of wild birds.
VMXlp TIL about Jasmine Richards, who at 12 years old in 2006, stabbed her little brother to death while her 23 year old boyfriend at the time murdered the her parents. She's the youngest person in Canada to get charged with murder.
mB9E TIL Hitler admired Disney cartoons. He was delighted when Joseph Goebbels gifted him eighteen Mickey Mouse films as a Christmas present in 1937.
59P9 TIL A segment for Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood in which Mr. Rogers underwent a tonsillectomy, inspired Romero to go into the horror film business.