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TIL Germany is very easygoing on its prisoners. Murderers get a few decades in a prison complex similar to a college dorm, complete with video games, television, computers, privacy, their own food, and sometimes weekend leave.

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0wMJ1 TIL despite not having a nuclear engineering program (no engineering programs at all) Reed College in Portland, OR is the only liberal-arts school to have a nuclear reactor. It is run by undergraduates, and has more female operators than any other nuclear program in the world combined.
DQ4Qj TIL that in order to listen The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka properly, you have to play all 4 CD's simultaneously.
AD4po TIL that according to the FCC, as of 2018, there are still 100,000 pay phones left in the United States.
geB4 TIL Southwest Airlines once offered a free bottle of booze with the purchase of a full fare ticket and for two months became the largest distributor of premium liquor in the state of Texas
grXrD TIL US oil company CITGO is owned by Venezuela's state-owned oil & gas company PDVSA