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TIL: Corrections Corporation of America is a private company that owns jails that had 1.7 billion dollars in revenue in 2012.

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pj68 TIL of a WWII German fighter pilot that shot down 352 enemy aircraft and crash landed 14 times, all due to mechanical failure or getting hit by debris from a plane he downed. Credited with having the most aerial combat victories, Erich Hartmann earned the nickname “Black Devil”.
b6OGZ TIL Squidward Tentacles isn’t a squid, but a six-legged octopus.
oBkvA TIL in the 1792 Presidential election, George Washington got 100.0% of the vote. Which was only 28,579 votes.
v1lwR TIL that Hitler slept until noon most days, including D-Day, so 2 crucial Panzer divisions under his exclusive control where unusable
P95L TIL that Russia has so many dashcams because drivers use them to avoid road rage induced fights, denied hit and run insurance claims, and extortion scams.