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TIL There is a jail vigilante named T-Bone who beats up jail rapists

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LkZNP TIL of "King Neptune", a 700 lb pig that was "auctioned" piece by piece, including the Squeal, at fundraisers during WWII across Southern Illinois. He raised $19 Million Dollars ($271 Million in 2021) over a few years and was never slaughtered, living a peaceful postwar retirement.
16VQD TIL Harrison Ford (the actor who plays Han Solo) is two years older than Ian Mcdiarmid (the actor who plays the Emperor)
5Vo5P TIL scientists didn’t use real blood to test absorbency of menstrual products, such as pads, until 2023. Up until then, a saline solution was the default method.
yQmwe TIL there were only two English words that end in "gry"-- hungry and angry. In 2018, the Oxford English Dictionary added a third-- "hangry" (an irritable state induced by lack of food).
VMMJQ TIL a museum turned an apollo space shuttle into a time capsul in 1976, and plans to re-open it in 2076