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TIL the safest place on Earth is fort Knox

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n6m9 TIL a 22-year-old Washington man was arrrested on a misdemeanor pot charge and was left to die in his jail cell after guards ignored his food allergies
E5Kx TIL the costume designers for Lord of the Rings worked for two straight years making custom armor for the movies. They fabricated a total of 11 kilometers of chain mail (nearly 7 miles) by hand, to lay under the armor of the warriors. Just one orc suit had 13,000 rings and took 3 days to make.
m1mxO TIL that the United States Secretary of War John Armstrong Jr, was so completely sure that Britain would not take Washington during the War of 1812, that he didn’t even try to stop them, when they did.
X0DXD TIL octopuses have 9 brains and 3 hearts
pO9O TIL Iceland’s population so closely knit that there is a dating app to help prevent accidental incest