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TIL that Brazilian prisons offer to reduce the sentences of their prisoners by 4 days (up to 48 days/year) for every book they read and write a report on.

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VMov4 TIL that in 2002, 339 dead bodies were found on the property of a crematorium in Georgia after the owner started leaving them around the crematorium, in storage sheds, inside vaults and boxes, and outdoors instead of cremating them.
OG9Va TIL that despite being 69 years old at the time and a civilian John L. Burns fought for the Union at the battle of Battle of Gettysburg.
nevvb TIL Two thousand and ten years ago, Roman Emperor Augustus banished Ovid to the island of Tomis, where he stayed for the rest of his life. Rome's city council formally revoked his banishment in December 2017
JYGAv TIL of Thales of Miletus, The first known individual to whom a mathematical discovery has been attributed. Thales used geometry to calculate the heights of pyramids and the distance of ships from the shore. He is also the first known individual to use deductive reasoning applied to geometry
7VJM TIL That in 2011 when Oprah Winfrey launched OWN, the average prime-time audience was 264,000. The channel’s losses were estimated to be $330 million as of May 2012.