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TIL many American prisoners have to pay for their own winter clothes, medical care, and other basic necessities, despite only having available jobs which pay cents per hour.

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eE1E TIL snake anti venom is made from the neutralising antibodies that a horse produces when it is injected with snake venom
MA6m TIL When macaroni and cheese’s ingredients became widely accessible in North America, the fancy upperclass restaurants stopped serving it.
5VlAn TIL the United States has purchased thousands of weapons’ worth of uranium from decommissioned Soviet nuclear weapons. It is estimated that one in ten lightbulbs in the US are powered by nuclear fuel removed from weapons formerly pointed at the US and its allies.
yajX TIL Balisongs (butterfly knives) are not illegal because of more use in violent crime, but because they can cause prolific amounts of Emergency Room visits from user-based accidents.
Kbaa TIL that the advertising campaign for the energy drink “Pussy” was banned in the UK for being sexually explicit. The slogan was “The drink’s pure, it’s your mind that’s the problem”.