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TIL Brazil will offer inmates in its crowded prison system a novel way to shorten their sentences – cutting four days for every book they read.

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VMnEk Today I learned about a Dutch bicycle company that put pictures of TVs on their bike boxes to prevent damage while shipping. Doing so saw an 80% decrease in damage.
v18x8 TIL When a male giraffe is looking to impregnate a female, it brushes her read end with his nose to prompt urination. When she starts to pee, the male tastes the urine so he can the detect hormones that confirm whether she is ready to mate.
KO5OB TIL President Truman was opposed to McCarthyism, which was a means of deplatforming suspected communists without technically violating the first amendment, largely by barring them from employment. "In a free country, we punish men for the crimes they commit, but never for the opinions they have."
R5M44 TIL: Underwater bomb detectors can be used to track whale populations and in 2022 scientists used bomb detectors to uncover a new population of pygmy blue whales in the Indian Ocean
NxM6 TIL that on hearing about Kristallnacht , Kaiser Willhelm II said from his exile “For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.”