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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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x7vw TIL FEMA has been using Waffle Houses as unofficial indicators of disaster recovery in recent years. The chains are conveniently located across the hurricane zones of the US, usually operate 24 hours a day and have exceptional disaster preparedness that lets them open back up quickly after a storm.
xAAk TIL in 1201, Genghis Khan was shot in the neck during a battle, and asked the defeated army who had shot “his horse”, trying to downplay the injury. The archer voluntarily confessed to shooting Genghis Khan and refused to beg for mercy, so the Khan spared him, turning him into a great general.
QNLwe TIL about North Korean former soldier Oh Chong Song, who defected to South Korea by simply crashing his car into the DMZ and escaped under a shower of North Korean bullets.
jNXnp TIL Copper destroys viruses and bacteria and protects people in contact with it in the context of their work
KwrQ TIL in 1968 a tower block in London partially collapsed after a woman tried to make a cup of tea.