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

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8exAZ TIL Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (sons of 26th US President Teddy Roosevelt), became the first North Americans to shoot a panda, on an expedition funded by the (Chicago) Field Museum of Natural History in the 1920s.
VBpBD TIL Around 2200 BC, a drought lasting about 100 years started that has been hypothesized to have caused the collapse of the first generation of human civilizations, including those in the Indus Valley, Old Kingdom Egypt, Liangzhu Civilization in China, and the Akkadian Empire in Sumeria.
LkbLP TIL : If it weren’t for Pierre Berton, far fewer Canadians would know the legend of Sam Steele, Canada’s most famous Mountie and probably the world’s most cartoonishly Canadian person. From 1898 to 1899, Steele was commissioner for the Yukon, as thousands of men and women from around the world
OoxPR TIL 7 minutes workout, a more efficient yet still effective workout. It consists of 12 different exercises that work the upper body, lower body, and core. Each exercise for 30 seconds, about 15 to 20 repetitions, and rest for about 10 seconds between exercises.
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