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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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Lk5kp TIL the creator of Gillette was credited with saying "give 'em the razor; sell 'em the blades", a concept that later became a business model used by inkjet printers and game consoles
VMwVD TIL that LSD causes the regions in the brain involved in introspection and the regions involved in sensory perception of the outside world to communicate with each other more intensely than usual, which is why people tend to feel a sense of oneness with the universe while under its influence.
mx44M TIL that about 85 percent of hospitals still use pagers because hospitals can be dead zones for cell service. In some hospital areas, the walls are built to keep X-rays from penetrating, but those heavy-duty designs also make it hard for a cell phone signal to make it through but not pagers.
nWBjr TIL: 50 years ago, American TV reporter, Christine Chubbuck, committed suicide on live TV by shooting herself in the head.
R7rZ1 TIL President JFK had an affair with a 19 year old White House intern, including one instance where he dared her successfully to perform oral sex on his special assistant, Dave Powers