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TIL that California uses inmates to fight forest fires. Prisoners take the jobs because it reduces their sentence, gets them outside, and pays better than typical prison jobs.

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OjbX TIL that since the 1990’s a small group of people in Greece have revived the Hellenistic religion, and worship the Gods of ancient Greece
rnMd TIL in 1956, the U.S. passed the Refrigerator Safety Act, which made it mandatory for all fridges to be magnetically sealed. This was due to the high amount of children who suffocated in latched refrigerators.
16Wd4 TIL that the world record for most number of monogamous marriages is held by Glynn Wolfe - he married 31 times (with one marriage being annulled) and had approximately 19 children.
Y7mmZ TIL a woman spent two years in her boyfriend’s bathroom
neXXB TIL that Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath fame once got arrested for punching a Nazi in a bar