› added 9 years ago

171

TIL despite making up only 8% of the population of Saskatchewan, aboriginals make up 76% of the inmate population.

Read more csc-scc.gc.ca

via reddit.com

XEQkj TIL there is a Coral Trafficking Task Force here in The Florida Keys.
VB0y8 TIL Seahorses are notoriously bad swimmers, so much so that the dwarf seahorse is considered the slowest fish in the world.
OJN6 TIL in 2009, Colorado initiated its Family Planning Initiative to provide low-to-no cost birth control to 68 family clinics around the state. Between 2009 and 2013, the state’s teen birth rate dropped by 40%.
BrgOb TIL up to 1/3 of American tourists to Scotland believe haggis is made from a small, wooly, highland creature known as a "wild haggis."
Wk08Y TIL that Alan Silvestri, composer for the soundtrack to 'Back to the Future' and 'The Avengers', learned to score a film from a book on film scoring. He bought it the night before a meeting with the producer of 'The Doberman Gang'