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TIL there are more jails and prisons than colleges and universities in the USA

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Z8W8R TIL that King Frederik VII of Denmark was the last monarch to rule in Denmark as an absolute monarch and that when he died childless in 1863, a succession crisis ensued.
RRaj TIL Bob Ross was an Air Force First Sergeant and decided to speak quietly after his service ended. Happy Birthday Bob!
Bgv0b TIL in 1990, a Domino's Pizza owner in Washington DC noticed a record-breaking number of pizza orders from the Pentagon leading up to the Invasion of Kuwait. Similar increases happened leading up the Panama Invasion and Grenada Invasion; the intelligence leakage became known as The Pizza Meter
o9NW TIL That when Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria saw revolutionaries marching on his palace, he asked “But are they allowed to do that?”
Vw1k TIL Laws against child labour were introduced in Prussia to improve the health of army recruits.