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TIL The Netherlands Closed Eight Prisons Due To Lack Of Criminals

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xVrO0 TIL about the Mount Rushmore of Romania, the Rock sculpture of Decebalus carved between 1994-2004
VMBRk At just 11 light-years away, it’s basically next door
7rRpM TIL that American employees at large-sized companies (1000 or more employees) only spend 45 percent of their time actually "working"—that is, time spent on primary job duties and not on meetings, administrative tasks, and interruptions.
kDQE TIL of United Airlines Flight 811, a regularly scheduled flight between Sydney and San Francisco that on February 24, 1989 had a cargo door fail at 22,000 feet resulting in explosive decompression. 9 passengers were blown out and killed. Two flight attendants were nearly lost as well
Z8Vo TIL after dreaming the melody to “Yesterday” Paul McCartney became convinced that he had subconsciously plagiarized the song (cryptomnesia), and went around to other bands and played a demo to make sure the song wasn’t theirs