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TIL of Thomas Silverstein, a convict who’s been held in solitary confinement at a Supermax prison since 1983. Considered one of the most dangerous inmates in the U.S., he’s committed multiple murders in jail. He’s held in a specially designed cell called Range 13 and has no human contact

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oB88Y TIL James Taylor’s father served as the medical officer for Deep Freeze, an expedition to Antarctica.
KOkZw TIL: Uncle Sam is the personification of the US Government, Columbia is the personification of the US People.
N78QE TIL that Stanisław Skalski, the first Allied air ace of WWII, shot down a German aircraft during the Invasion of Poland then landed next to it, bandaged the wounded crew, made sure they got to an ambulance, and took off again
R59o1 TIL that grapes and raisins are highly toxic for dogs
VBM7k TIL that the Shunganunga boulder, a 23-ton red quartzite rock, was moved by glaciers from the Dakotas to Kansas hundreds of thousands of years ago; the boulder is sacred to the Kanza tribe (expelled from the state named after them) and Shunganunga translates to "Big Red Rock" in their language.