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TIL that Washington state sends it's most dangerous sex offenders to an island in the Puget Sound accessible only by a restricted state run ferry.

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KYaQ TIL Charlie Sheen once bought 2,615 tickets to a major league baseball game to improve his chances of catching a home run ball..
X0wPQ TIL that prior to World War II, the equivalent of comparing someone to Hitler was to compare them to the Pharaoh of the Book of Exodus. Abolitionists compared slavers to Pharaoh, and Confederates compared Lincoln to Pharaoh.
LkZKQ TIL The first natural gas pipeline was in China before 500BC using bamboo pipes
9YaGm TIL In 2017, a Chicago man filled out a change of address form to change the address of UPS corporate headquarters to that of his apartment, causing the postal service to forward thousands of letters and checks to him.
MelN7 TIL - the average body temperature of a “healthy” human has actually dropped from 98.6 degrees to 97.5 degrees over the past 150 years