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TIL it costs NYC $209,000 per year to house one inmate at Rikers Island

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7r6JM TIL about Sandra Perron, the first female infantry officer in the Canadian Army. Viewed as a threat by the male officers, she was beaten, tied to a tree, and left in the snow for two hours without boots. Her experience forced the army to revise its procedures to prevent harassment.
wdd6 TIL Tobacco has been cultivated for so long that it no longer grows naturally in the wild.
00K5 TIL Guillermo Del Toro left a notebook containing 4 years’ worth of ideas for Pan’s Labyrinth in the back seat of a London cab. The cab driver used a scrap of stationery from Del Toro’s hotel he found in the book to return it. Del Toro gave him a $900 reward.
xjob TIL a physician who went by the code name “Dr. Feelgood” routinely injected JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mantle, Truman Capote, and Elvis Presley with methamphetamines that they became dependent on.
yQaLX TIL about Guedelon - A Medieval Castle Being Built in France, Using Medieval Methods