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TIL prison ships are a thing. There's actually one floating around New York.

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OoDYa TIL Clone High, an adult animated tv series about the clones of famous historical figures going to high school, was cancelled due to its portrayal of Ghandi as a loose party animal, causing great controversy in India. It began hunger strikes and even a national protest where MPs got involved.
mxekM TIL that Poland declared a full on War on the USSR in 1920 and Won
Y4wW TIL in the last 25 years, while playing at night and at home, West Coast football teams have beaten East Coast football teams 70 percent of the time. The reason? Circadian Rhythm.
kKK4 TIL that Charles Bronson’s family was so poor that at one time he had to wear his sister’s dress to school for lack of clothing.
GYyjN TIL that the original radio broadcast War of the Worlds In 1938 did not induce mass panic across the US as widely believed and that the hysteria was actually just an early example of fake news being reported by the newspapers.