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TIL all prisoners in Norway have internet in their cells

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0Lry TIL that a koi fish named “Hanako” was owned by several individuals over its lifetime and lived to be 225 years old.
wowB8 TIL John von Neumann regularly recalled complete novels and pages of the phone directory. He could divide two 8-digit numbers in his head and converse in Ancient Greek at age 6, and was proficient in calculus at age 8. When he enrolled in university at 16, he had already written a research paper.
OG6G4 TIL Corporal Nand Singh earned the Victoria Cross in WW2. He captured 3 trenches, killing soldiers with his bayonet despite wounds. He earned another medal in 1947, capturing a bunker by killing enemy with his bayonet. The Pakistanis threw his body in a garbage dump, never to be recovered.
v1ERj TIL that during the 2010 Olympic Hockey Final, Air Canada had to delay a flight because the passengers refused to board until the game was over.
gnvA TIL NFL player Brian Bosworth outraged Denver Broncos fans, then sold 10,000 of them 15$ T-shirts that said “Ban the Boz”, without them knowing that he was selling them.