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TIL of frequency 4625 kHz, a station no one claims and has been going since 1973.

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d8R1B TIL of the Lost Scottish Clan of Gurro in Northern Italy. The claim is that retreating Scottish Guardsmen from a defeated French Army stopped in town and recreated their ways there, which remained preserved to this day.
QV5d TIL David Spade’s 6'2" 350lb former assistant broke into his house in the middle of the night and beat him up with the intention to commit a murder-suicide, but Spade successfully fought him off
mx0nY TIL Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest chess players of all time was issued a warrant for his arrest by the United States for playing a chess match which would ultimately be his final competitive match.
JGrj TIL there was a non-Japanese, non-spouse American who voluntarily went to a Japanese American Internment Camp in WWII.
W7YlB TIL after Crassus defeated Spartacus, the 6K prisoners they took were put on a cross every 100ft on their journey back