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TIL the Aryan Brotherhood makes up less than 0.1% of the prison population, but is responsible for 18% of murders in the federal prison system.

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Z5pa TIL, in a 60’s government funded LSD study, “26 men unleashed a slew of widely embraced innovations shortly after their LSD experiences, including a mathematical theorem for NOR gate circuits, a conceptual model of a photon, a linear electron accelerator beam-steering device,” [and more….]
rZYd TIL that in August 1943, Roosevelt approved a secret shipment of banned chemical weapons to Italy aboard the SS John Harvey. This ship was bombed by the Luftwaffe which lead to an unintentional release of mustard gas on the city of Bari, Italy.
4X98a TIL champion shearer Ian Elkins answered a call put out by RSPCA Australia when a heavily overgrown merino sheep was spotted by a bushwalker. Merino sheep, bred to grow wool, may get infections/flystrike if not shorn; about 80 pounds of fleece was shorn from "Chris" the sheep, a world record.
GY4wg TIL The tallest woman in recorded history is alleged to be the Dutch Trijntje Cornelisdochter Keever: standing at 2.54 metres (8 ft 4 in) tall at the time of her death at age seventeen.
ape9 TIL Aaron Paul, Jesse from “Breaking Bad”, was once a contestant on “The Price is Right”.