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TIL for the past 56 years there’s been a prisoner rodeo that takes in Angola, LA.

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XEAn8 TIL that "survivorshp bias" has its name from WWII where engineers failed to increase bomber pilot's chance of surviving when they increased armour on bombers where bullet holes where most often found until a statistician then proposed to increase armour where holes couldn't be found.
rR6nx TIL that in an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some mathematical discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.
QJXre TIL Sharks love heavy metal because the low-frequency vibrations are similar to the sounds made by struggling fish
XEVgR TIL Grizzly bears' muscles suffer no atrophy despite months of inactivity in hibernation; scientists discovered that non-essential amino acids (NEAAs) regulated by particular grizzly bear muscle proteins allowed muscle growth during inactivity.
RlJ6 TIL Comedian Mitch Hedberg’s heroin addiction was so severe that it mangled his right leg to the point of amputation, instead doctors performed a 13 hour surgery to save his leg leaving him with a limp for the rest of his life.