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TIL The Netherlands may have to close five prisons due to a lack of inmates.

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VBXDk TIL the 1988 Camelford Water Disaster was the UK's worst mass poisoning event. Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate was accidentally added to the water supply, leading thousands to become sick. Inquests on people who died many years later found very high levels of aluminium in the brain.
JAk TIL In Saving Private Ryan, the two “German” soldiers shot trying to surrender were members of the Ost Battalions, prisoners froms eastern European countries invaded and forced into the German army. They were saying, “Please don’t shoot me, I am not German, I am Czech, I didn’t kill anyone!”
a8DKb TIL Exposure to neighborhood violence has also been found to prospectively predict high levels of peer-rated aggression for children living in impoverished communities
ne4BY TIL Weird Al’s “The Saga Begins,” which summarizes the plot of The Phantom Menace, was written two months before the movie’s release. He wrote most of the song using rumors leaked onto the Internet.
6Ke8 TIL that if Massachusetts were a country, its students would rank 9th in the world at math, 4th in the world at reading, and 2nd in the world at science, behind only Singapore..