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TIL The London Thames Barrier costs £16,000 ($26k) to close on each occasion

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68k8 TIL prisoners can vote in two states, but in many others, going to prison may permanently ban you from voting.
Wol9 TIL A study reported when dieters ate two eggs for breakfast for five days out of the week, they lost 65 percent more weight than dieters who consumed a bagel in the morning.
oAPA TIL Andrew Zimmern of Bizarre Foods was once homeless in NYC and would steal purses to afford his drug habit.
EXZw TIL of Mike, the scambaiter who conned a “Nigerian Prince” out of $80 by pretending to be Father Hector Barnett of ‘The Church of the Painted Breast’ and convincing the scammer to take part in the church’s initiation process.
BxWK TIL an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea meets a white man for the first time in 1976 and thinks the white man is covered in dirt/sand.