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TIL that the US Marshals' "Con Air" service will transport non-federal prisoners at a cost of no more than $2,643.

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eM44 TIL Chevy Chase avoided the draft by falsely claiming he was homosexual.
dKrE TIL that the English Dennis the Menace and the American Dennis the Menace were developed completely independently of each other and were coincidentally published on the same day on opposite sides of the Atlantic on 12 March 1951
l7a8V TIL Eternal Recurrence is the idea that everything you experience will repeat in exactly the same way, forever. Expanded on by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, it encourages living fully, as your life will be eternally relived in the same moments.
epPY6 TIL that Nietzsche's central concepts of Will to Power and Eternal Recurrence were in part inspired by long-forgotten natural scientist Johannes Gustav Vogt's "Force: A Realistic and Monistic Worldview" (1878), a work nowhere to be found and de facto lost for all of us
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