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TIL the US prison industry predict future demand by the percentage of illiterate 10- and 11-year-olds.

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WkwLX TIL that the US Army is unable to account for roughly $6.5 trillion worth of transactions between 1999 and 2015 and the number is still growing.
obRL TIL Fred Rogers was committed to racial diversity, and not long after inner-city riots erupted following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, Rogers introduced the character of a black police officer keeping everyone safe in the neighborhood.
aw6LA TIL Charles Bonaparte, a nephew of Napoleon, created the Bureau of Investigation for Theodore Roosevelt and recruited himself the 10 first agents, the B.O.I. later became the F.B.I.; he's also been an activist for the rights of black residents of his city.
v1o9D TIL Ida B. Wells won a Pulitzer Prize last year (2020) "for her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching", 89 years after she died.
Mey6a TIL that a schizophrenic Canadian man who beheaded and then partially cannibalized a fellow passenger on a greyhound bus in 2008, was institutionalised for 9 years and then given an absolute discharge and released.