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TIL that the last ever prisoners to be held inside the Tower Of London prison were the Kray Twins in 1952

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QbdE TIL: The President of the USA currently makes 20% the salary that the president in 1909 made in real terms and an all time record low salary for presidents of the US
JY4lV TIL when Secretariat (winner of the triple crown in 1973) died, his body was sent to the University of Kentucky for an autopsy. They found his heart weighed an astounding 22 pounds! The average weight of a mature Thoroughbred’s heart is a mere eight pounds.
xV6l5 TIL that Missouri was the first US state to amend wildlife conservation into its constitution in order to prevent it from being easily repealed, by a state-wide referendum. 81 years later, the model Missouri uses for wildlife conservation is still a transnational standard.
OGneY TIL: Australia claims ~5.9 million square kilometres of Antarctica (about 42%)
VBm6D TIL the deepest known blue hole (underwater sinkhole) in the world is called the Taam Ja' Blue Hole and is in Mexico's Chetumal Bay. It's been measured to 1,378 feet (420 meters) deep, although scientists still haven't found the bottom.