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TIL Salvador Dali made a painting for Riker’s Island prison in New York, which was eventually moved away from inmates, only to be stolen by guards.

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W7EAA TIL of British General Charles “No-flint” Grey. Grey defeated several American armies in stealth attacks, using his favoured tactic of having his men remove the flints from their muskets and attack enemies using their bayonets alone.
9Ybd7 TIL that federal, state and local governments unconstitutionally segregated every major metropolitan area in America through law and policy.
rR6Oy TIL of Canada's "Apology Act" to allow habitually apologetic Canadians to say "sorry" without implying any admission of fault or liability.
Oo6j6 TIL God of War (2018) was done in a single shot with no loading screens or fade-to-black between gameplay and cutscenes.
E1NPx TIL That nematode, the simplest worm, despite having only 302 neurons that were comprehensively mapped and researched, still exhibits a complex range of behavior, emergence of which is still not well understood. Even the basic movement can't be fully explained.