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

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5YgQQ TIL: The gas company Shell is called such because it started out as a seashell store.
NQY6 TIL Jamie Oliver took Mc Donalds to court to change the recipe of their meat and won, and have started making healthier meat since then.
9YxYm TIL that in N.A.S.A.'s management training programs, new managers are shown the film Armageddon(1998) and are given the task of trying to spot as many errors as possible. So far, at least one hundred sixty-eight have been found.
KPBR TIL that crows recognise human faces and hold grudges against ones they don’t like