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TIL Emma Watson is a certified yoga instructor.

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VM46Z TIL: Those with a criminal record have a hard time securing stable housing, even though access to it prevents more crime. When people with criminal records are given supportive housing, the use of state prisons and city jails drops by 74% and 40% respectively.
epyd6 TIL about the Olympus Scandal centering around Japanese camera maker Olympus hiding massive investment losses totaling $1.7 billion through an elaborate accounting fraud that lasted for at least 13 years before being exposed in 2011
nWlAB TIL that British Royalty used to place Wax or Wood figures of the deceased on top of their coffin before burial and for display afterward in Westminster Abbey. More than 20 of these funeral effigies, dating back to Edward III from 1377, remain and are on display at the Westminster Abbey Museum.
r5EW TIL Thrift Shop was the first song since 1994 that reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label
v1kyB TIL, in an unusal way, that Jerry Seinfeld date a high school girl when he was 38 years old