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TIL that most of Hawaii's male prison population are housed in Eloy, Arizona by contract. The guards must take a Hawaiian diversity training class.

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neBpo TIL in 2006 Turkmenistan leader cancelled pensions to a third of pensioners saying payments were inflated. The same leader who reportedly banned gold teeth, smoking, video games, recorded music, lip-syncing, makeup on newscasters, owning more than one cat/dog, young men from growing beards/long hair
x66Ob TIL that Daniel Craig had to overcome his fear of heights to shoot the construction site scene in Casino Royale, which required him to climb a 200 foot (60 metre) crane.
grB17 TIL that platypuses (platypi?) don't have nipples and secrete milk through their abdominal skin. Also there are no known pain relief medication that can treat platypus venom, since the venom affects unknown pain response pathways in humans
LQN1V TIL that French uses « » as quotation marks instead of " "
6ErQ TIL That in 1909, you could fake-murder your friends in a wax bullet duel. It was even an Olympic event.