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Today I learned... many California inmates have served time by becoming forest firefighters

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1l04 TIL Hitler requested the Shah of Iran to destroy roads and bridges so supplies wouldn’t be sent to Russia in the north, and that Hitler would rebuild these after the war once he won. The Shah refused.
WkvgA TIL that one hotel owner's refusal to serve another's daughter fried chicken led to the second man building a rival hotel in right next door. Locals referred to it as the 'Fried Chicken War'
vZ9B TIL Someone created an ‘Assassination Market’ using Bitcoins as the payment method. The price to hit Ben Bernanke was the equivalent of $75,000.
0goy TIL back in 2011 NYC cops were acquitted of raping a drunk woman despite medical evidence corroborating her story, eyewitnesses the cops lied to, a fake 911 call by the cops trying to cover up the incident, and a taped admission by the cop that he had sex with the victim.
9wx5r TIL "Seven Nation Army" became a global sports anthem after a Belgian soccer team's fans heard it in a bar before a big game, sang it while they won, and adopted it as their unofficial team anthem; it spread to other European teams and came back to the US as a Penn State football anthem.