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TIL that from 1969 to 1971, shortly after it's closing, Alcatraz Island was taken over and occupied by Indigenous Indians to protest the use of their land for the prison

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XpyP TIL In the winter of 1963-64, a team of FBI agents spent their days hunched over portable record players, struggling to decode a message that threatened the morality of America’s youth. It wasn’t from the Russians or Castro, but a band of white-bread Portland teenagers called The Kingsmen.
ANKPo TIL there's an airport in Amsterdam that uses landscaping to reduce noise
E1JNX TIL that when a dead whale washed up on an Oregon beach, they decided the best way to dispose of the body was to detonate it, unintentionally covering the townspeople in whale blood.
o0jK TIL: A former NASA engineer built “Worlds Largest Nerf Gun”, which fires darts made of plungers and pool noodles at 40 mph, up to 100 yards.
L7M9 TIL that the French have a different cheese for every day of the year. Cheese experts estimate the total number of different French cheeses is around 1000.