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TIL Prisoners are being used in place of migrant farm workers.

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BrArK TIL that in 2018 Bob Costas was removed from his spot on the Super Bowl and fired from NBC for submitting a monologue that discussed the dangers of concussions during the Super Bowl.
QNKOp TIL a man in California tried to hunt Bin Laden with a Katana and Night vision Goggles
JYdL8 TIL in 1994, radio shock jock Howard Stern talked a suicidal caller out of jumping off the George Washington Bridge in New York. He was live on air conversing and making jokes with him until he was able to be restrained and sent to a hospital.
4yKo TIL a man named Ratanlal Maloo, created an artificial sanctuary for the migratory Demoiselle Cranes in Rajasthan, India by feeding them every year over a span of 40 years. Their numbers increased from 80, 40 years ago, to 15000 in 2011.
KYGJJ TIL that since 1973, in the United States, 197 people sentenced to death have been exonerated.