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TIL Black people were denied vanilla ice cream in the Jim Crow south – except on Independence Day

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9Y4DG TIL that after visiting a prison in Norway that treated prisoners humanely, a warden from North Dakota went back and reformed her prison based on Norway's model. It later saw sharp decline in violence against inmates and threats against staff
P4Ve TIL that there is only one city in Canada’s Yukon Territory.
QbK9 TIL that a “double blind” study means that both the patient AND the researcher don’t know who the control group is and which option the placebo is.
4g7b TIL that German chocolate cake isn’t German; it’s named after an American chocolate maker named Sam German who developed the dark chocolate originally used in the recipe.
OGkZ4 TIL - Romania tops alcohol consumption per person 16.90 litres annually. This is significantly higher than the US, where it’s 9.97. Contrarily, countries like Afghanistan and Libya have the lowest consumption rates, at 0.01 and 0.03 litres.