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TIL Since inmates are not allowed to possess cash there’s been a mackerel economy in federal prisons since 2004.

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jKwX TIL a man started a horseback ride from Patagonia to Alaska in 1994. He arrived this year.
1e18 TIL Bob Marley died of cancer, which originated in his toe. He didn’t accept what would’ve been a fairly easy procedure of amputation, due to his religious beliefs. He died at 36 after the decease had spread to his lungs and brain.
KOjrB TIL that Dr. David W. Hartman is the first blind person to graduate from medical school (since 1872)
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NoGP TIL A killer fog blanketed London in 1952 and left as many as 12,000 people dead. It led to Parliament passing the first Clean Air Act in 1956.