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TIL that the Panopticon prison design used centrally positioned guards to create the illusion of constant surveillance, ensuring low-cost control over inmates behavior

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pQWe TIL that when monkeys are taught to recognize themselves in the mirror, the first thing they do after recognizing themselves in the mirror is to inspect their genitals.
gENy TIL of a website called MakeLoveNotPorn that shows videos of regular people having sex. It is dedicated to making sex less culturally taboo and works to subvert the negative ideas about sex and sexuality that are propagated by porn.
69ea8 TIL about the Oyster Wars, a series of sometimes violent conflicts that lasted almost 100 years between the states of Maryland and Virginia against 'Oyster Pirates' who illegally dredged the Chesapeake Bay for oysters
jxaR TIL In 2013, you can re-use calendars from these years: 2002, 1991, 1985, 1974, 1963, 1957, 1946, 1935, 1929, and 1918.
Q7R9 TIL Bill Gaines of MAD Magazine send the whole staff to Haiti to thank their ONE Haitian subscriber.