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TIL about Charles Dickens’ son Frank, who joined the predecessors of Canada’s iconic Mounties after failing the British Foreign Office exams, losing his officer’s commission in the Bengal Mounted Police, and “squandering his inheritance on poor investments and disssipated living."

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p8a5p TIL the Creator of Kwanzaa was convicted of assault and imprisonment for group torture of two women through beating them with an electrical cord, burning them with a soldering iron, forcing water and detergent down their throats, and striking them with toasters.
xVn5 TIL that the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”
levB TIL a man in Missouri is in his 20th year of a life-without-parole sentence as the result of 3 marijuana-related felonies. He says when he tells other prisoners what he’s serving life for, they do not believe him.
WjkL TIL pirates were not anarchists and had a “Pirate Code’ that provided rules for discipline, division of stolen goods, and compensation for injured pirates
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