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TIL U.S. prisoners are feed a flavorless brick named "disciplinary loaf" for misbehaving.

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XadP TIL that if you confess you murdered someone to a priest, your secret is protected by Catholic law
GYv8g TIL Johann Sebastian Bach did not write the Minuets in G major and G minor, BWV Anh. 114 and 115, but were by composed by another German composer Christian Petzold, which, through their appearance in the 1725 Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, used to be attributed to Bach.
g4x7 Til the Malaysian government banned the movie ‘Schindlers list’ as the filmed was deemed “propaganda with the purpose of asking for sympathy.”
Qp1L TIL a blue whale can consume as many calories in a single moutful as an average person consumes in roughly 180 days
d8Xn8 TIL that towards the end of WWI a 'second Paris' was built to fool German bombers into not bombing the real Paris. It was complete with a Champs-Elysées and Gard Du Nord, wooden replicas of buildings, and white, yellow, and red lights to create the effect of machines working at night.