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TIL One reason England started using prisons was because Public Executions were becoming more of a drunken party vs. a deterrent to crime

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AX8o TIL police in more than half of U.S. states collect a DNA sample from people arrested and not yet even convicted. Check to see if your state is one of them.
ZE4Y TIL of Betteridge’s law of headlines which states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
APW7 TIL a barcode scanner reads the white bars, and not the black bars
LkGlv TIL Liza Hamilton (real life grandmother of John Steinbeck and basis for the "East of Eden" character) died in the 1918 flu pandemic.
lZ4K TIL English farmer Angus Wielkopolski discovered that goats produce more milk listening to Mariah Carrey’s all I want for Christmas tune than any other song. They found that the goats produced up to half a pint more when Carey’s famous Christmas track was played.