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TIL: Most countries don’t actually rely on credit scores

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6EwlZ TIL: Although likely not contemporaneous with Jesus Christ, scientists cannot explain how the image was put on the Shroud of Turin
LkYy9 TIL about the Bard Prison Initiative, a program providing college education to inmates across various prisons in NY. Nationally, ~80% of inmates will return to prison within 9 years of release. BPI graduates have a recidivism rate of only 4%.
g9Y7 TIL that in 1971, Saddam Hussein imported 100,000 tons of grain treated with fungicidal mercury. The grain was intended for planting, but the Iraqis, unable to understand the English and Spanish warnings or the “skull and crossbones” image, baked it into bread. Hundreds died.
BgwDx TIL that John Quincy Adams won the 1824 US Presidential Election despite only winning 32.7% of the Electoral College vote
gOA7 TIL in a study it was found that, when domestic violence is one-sided, in 70% of the cases, women were the perpetrators