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TIL all prisoners in Norway have internet in their cells

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ANlZa TIL about the Ghost Blimp. In 1942, a crew of two men left San Francisco in a Navy blimp to conduct an antisubmarine patrol. Five hours later, the empty blimp drifted back ashore and crashed into a residential neighborhood. No trace of the crew was ever found.
QJxoe TIL that Julius Caesar is named after the caesarean section, not the other way around. Caesar's ancestor got that last name because he was "ab utero caeso" (lit. "cut from the womb"). Also the story that Julius was born via C-section is a myth.
78nlZ TIL that the suffix –stan when appended to a country's name means “place of,” or “where one stands” in Persian and Urdu.
woZV1 TIL: Just like you can cross a donkey and mare to create a mule, and you can cross a lion and a tiger to great a liger, it's possible for a whale and a dolphin to breed and produce a wholphin.
Og9R TIL that a Belgian beer club proposed to substitute beer instead of soft drinks on school menus to prevent childhood obesity.