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TIL America’s largest mental hospital is a jail.

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grEJX TIL there is a sport called Rollball a mixture of rollerblading/basketball/handball...
g10b TIL: An 80s pop song has been online since 2002 (YouTube since 2007) that no one has been able to identify despite extensive research.
a8OLM Today I learned that Disneyland used to have a "land" called Holidayland. It opened in 1957, but was so unsuccessful that it closed less than five years later. It has since been replaced by New Orleans Square, home of Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion.
EgGEx TIL The Mongols employed a gruesome tactic during the siege of Caffa in Genoa. They hurled the bodies of their comrades, who had perished from the bubonic plague, over the city walls, infecting their enemies and marking one of the earliest instances of biological warfare.
aw48M TIL that singer Helen Kane sued Fleischer Studios for basing Betty Boop's singing style on her and demanded royalties. She lost because Fleischer lawyers proved that Kane stole the style from African American singer Esther Jones.