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TIL the first police force of New South Wales (Australia) consisted of eight of the best-behaved convicts

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oBWjL TIL Way back in 1994 a camera was trained upon a lonely fishtank within the as yet unknown company Netscape. It transmitted live images of the fishtank to the emerging new landscape known as the World Wide Web. It was the second live camera on the web and is the oldest camera site still in existence
8aRWV TIL that the New York City owns an abandoned 22-acre island less than one mile from Manhattan. It has been abandoned since 1963 with no current plans of development.
DnQv TIL in 2001, journalist Sami al-Hajj was detained and held in Guantanamo Bay for 6 years, despite being completely innocent
GY4rj TIL that sunglasses were invented originally in 12th century China so that judges could conceal their eyes while interrogating witnesses.
neG6o TIL that several years ago there was somehow a common cold outbreak at a research base in Antarctica after 17 weeks of complete isolation. No cause was found.