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TIL about ADX Florence, one of the most secure prisons in the U.S. Inmates have been involved in espionage, bombings, mafia hits, serial killings, 9/11, and more.

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R4Wl TIL a woman on vacation heard a voice in her head telling her to return home immediately. The voices gave her an address to a hospital’s brain scan department. She found she had a brain tumor. On having it operated on, the voices told her they were happy to help her and “good bye”.
Ov9L TIL that English adjectives have a specific order - Opinion, Size, Physical Quality, Shape, Age, Colour, Origin, Material, Type, Purpose
aQlA TIL Hit and Run accident solve rates are abysmally low with roughly half of drivers in fatal accidents getting away
nE4P TIL Bela Lugosi, who portrayed Dracula in many films, was actually born in Transylvania
kED5 TIL ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, the most energetic particles known to humans, all come from the same region of the universe and are caused by an physical process of unknown origin. The most powerful cosmic ray ever recorded carried energy of 300 billion billion eV.