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TIL the Florida School for Boys, a reform school shut down in 2011, gained a reputation for abuse, beatings, rapes, torture, and even murder of students by staff. 50 unmarked and undocumented graves have been located on the property using radar.

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4RQ6 TIL In 2007, a Bowhead whale was discovered with the head of an explosive harpoon embedded deep under its neck blubber. The projectile was manufactured in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1890.
6Em7w TIL that the practice of indoor gardening dates back to ancient times. Initially, in ancient Egyptian, Indian and Chinese civilizations pot plants were used in outdoor settings in courtyards.
d84ZB TIL Simon. Simon was the ship's cat who served on the Royal Navy sloop HMS Amethyst. In 1949, during the Yangtze Incident, he received the PDSA's Dickin Medal after surviving injuries from a cannon shell, raising morale, and killing off a rat infestation during his service.
x0K7 TIL. During the Great flood of 93, James Scott, 23 intentialy removed sandbags from a levee causing it to breach so he could strand his wife on the other side and continue to party. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
9wVdD TIL the placenta develops from cells that originate from the embryo, and has the same DNA as the fetus. So eating the placenta is technically eating parts of the baby.