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TIL America’s largest mental hospital is a jail.

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epDy6 TIL the English word 'arena' comes from the Latin word harena, which was the fine-grained sand spread on the floor to soak up gladiator blood.
MeQn0 TIL a group of American and German forces actually fought side by side during the last days of WWII to defend a castle against attacking SS forces
NXn5N TIL about Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (or the "tooth in eye" surgery) where a part of a tooth is implanted into an eye to restore patient's vision
9Y9d6 TIL that Fredric Baur, inventor of the Pringles can, had (at his request) his ashes interred in one. It was Original flavor.
weg8 TIL that the Guinness record holder for the largest meal in the world is a traditional Bedouin wedding dish: a whole camel, stuffed with a whole lamb, stuffed with chickens, stuffed with fish, stuffed with eggs.