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TIL As of 2012, thirty-nine states have an “animal-adoption” program in their prisons, where inmates can receive a pet and even let them stay in their cell with them.

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rRvMo TIL that a cult in Papua New Guinea promised villagers that their banana harvest would increase every time they engaged in public sex. After a villager reported to the polіcе that the cult members had been using thrеats of viоlence to fоrce people to have sex in public, the leader escаped
oROXY TIL With a debut novel in 1976, bestselling author James Patterson didn't start writing full-time until after retiring from advertising in 1996 when he was almost 50
J1PDV TIL women get smegma too
xQvb TIL Religious belief in the US reached an all-time low in 2014
OoBWg TIL of Kryptos, a sculpture outside of the CIA headquarters with four cryptographic puzzles on it - only three of which have been solved in almost thirty years.