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TIL that conjugal visits go on in nursing homes.

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KOdaG TIL that in 2003 the Bolton Museum in England purchased a statue of the granddaughter of King Tutankhamun for £440,000. In 2006 they discovered it was a forgery
e0QlL TIL that on the 3 of September 1967 Swedish traffic switched from the left to the right side of the road. The event is known as "Dagen H" (Swedish for H Day), H standing for Högertrafikomläggningen, or the Right-Hand Traffic Diversion.
kOM5B TIL that World War II veteran Don Karkos had the sight in one of his eyes miraculously restored when a racehorse accidentally hit him in that eye and dislodged the shrapnel that had caused his blindness.
R5Z1Q TIL prohibition was law in Kansas until after World War II
kJ8R7 TIL the East Palestine crash isn't the first time Norfolk Southern has had a major hazmat train derailment. In 2005, a Norfolk Southern train crashed into a textile mill, releasing 60 tons of chlorine gas, putting 4,000 people out of work, and costing $215 million to settle.