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TIL in 2003, Raiders player Barret Robbins 'Missed the Super Bowl to Party in Tijuana'

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PYgXV TIL inmates in Brazilian APAC prisons can reduce their sentence by 3 days per book they read and write a report on... A part of a larger program that has reduced recitivism from 70% to as low as 7% in these prisons.
5VNM9 TIL that a release of radioactive material in a nuclear waste repository in New Mexico in 2014 was caused by someone substituting inorganic with organic kitty litter.
6pLm TIL that tooth enamel, the hardest and most mineral dense substance in our bodies, is primarily composed of dense rods of hydroxyapatite crystals.
BrpEe TIL that a German man drove the same car, nicknamed Otto, 549,000 miles in 177 countries on a 26-year road trip. His wife joined him for most of the journey, where they traveled to nearly every country on the planet.
dy6B TIL that the USA paid for 8 boats at $375,000 per boat for landlocked Afghanistan’s navy, they still haven’t been delivered