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TIL that Robert Franklin Stroud, was a convicted murderer in solitary confinement. While there, he raised a collection of 300canaries & published his research on avian pathology,which was useful in finding a cure for diseases affecting farmed birds; earning himself the nickname "Birdman of Alcatraz"

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gr8LD TIL the longest sea crossing in the world is a bridge-tunnel system connecting Macau and Hong Kong. It is 34 miles long, roughly twice the length of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, which is where the idea came from.
xngg TIL when Forrest Gump gets up to talk at the Vietnam rally in Washington, and you cannot hear him, he says, “Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don’t go home at all. That’s a bad thing. That’s all I have to say about that.”
8a97K TIL that Leah Betts, a girl that made headlines after dying from taking a single ecstasy pill, didn’t actually die directly from taking the drug, but instead from drinking 7 litres of water in 90 minutes. Ecstasy causes water retention, making even slightly high water consumption fatal.
xVg70 TIL that the first ever Ironman Triathlon was won by US Navy Communications Specialist Gordon Haller. The runner-up John Dunbar, a US Navy Seal, was winning after the second transition but lost his lead when he ran out of water and his support crew started giving him beer instead.
v4rD TIL: Green eyes make up only 1-2% of the entire human population, and natural occurring Violet colored eyes exist.