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w0R6 TIL There was scandal that came to light in 2008 which involved judges giving harsh sentences to young people over relatively harmless crimes for kickbacks from private prison owners.
QN7bL TIL Sweden has a party dedicated to celebrating its infamous fermented fish, known as surströmmingsskiva
gOA TIL that Hidden Valley was an actual Dude Ranch and is where the popular dressing was created.
NXewJ TIL The American edit of Godzilla 1985 was originally meant to be more comedic but the actors refused. Raymond Burr would not treat Godzilla as a joke because the character was an anti-nuclear war allegory and Warren Kemmerling just refused to do comic material.
D1JWg TIL The reason most early animation characters had white gloves was because it was in reference to people doing blackface and jazz musicians of the time.