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TIL that Prisons FC is an Ugandan professional football (soccer) club owned by Uganda Prisons Service, currently playing in the Ugandan Premier League.

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4kEKX TIL during the Cold War the US government stored opium and morphine at Fort Knox and the West Point Mint, to ensure the nation had adequate supplies in case of war or other supply disruptions. The stockpile was enough to meet the painkiller needs of the United States for one year.
Oo5Kg TIL - If you bite it and die, it is poisonous; if it bites you and you die, it is venomous.
kOj5m TIL Despite cement shoes being an execution method commonly associated with the mafia and other gangs, the first and only documented case of cement shoes used in a murder happened in May 2016.
QJBa6 TIL that the science of bite-mark comparisons, ballistic comparisons, fingerprint matching, blood-spatter analysis, arson investigation and other common forensic techniques have been tainted by systematic error, cognitive bias (tunnel vision) and little or no research or data to support it.
D40e TIL that the day Keith Richards was shooting Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End he was so drunk that the film’s director had to prop him up in order to shoot his scene.