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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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XERMR TIL: A study was conducted in an Australian University in 2008 found that "male science nerds" are most likely to be virgins and that female art majors were the most sexually active, but have little knowledge of what chlamydia is. The study was prompted by rapidly increasing cases of chlamydia.
d8w0K TIL "Eat It" by Weird Al went to #1 in Australia. But Michael Jackson's "Beat It" only made it to #3.
VrD4 TIL in 2004, GirlsGoneWild founder Joe Francis was held at gunpoint in his home by a man who demanded $500,000 whilst videotaping him and making him say “I’m from Boys Gone Wild, and I like it up the ass.”
YVGx TIL: Disney’s “Dumbo” was solely made to recoup the financial losses from “Fantasia”. “Dumbo” became an Academy Award winner and saved Disney during WW2
P5rJ TIL Marvel Comics created a superhero, Blue Ear, just for a 4 year old boy who was uncomfortable wearing his prescribed hearing aids. The boy told his mom “Superheroes don’t wear hearing aids” so Marvel created one.