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TIL Sesame Street has an Incarceration Tool Kit which assists parents and family with explaining prison to children

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mxVJE TIL that Taxi Medallions in NYC have devalued from $1,000,000 to $153,000 since the introduction of Uber, causing multiple cab owners to commit suicide
KOKp6 TIL Edward Bowen and his wife did not board the Lusitania after reading Germany’s warning in the newspaper that Germany would sink the ship. They were the only two that cancelled their plans
W7MNo TIL that there is such a thing as North Korean Science Fiction, where the Supreme Leader is always right and Evil Americans wander "the depraved streets of New York, where, at night, jazz made people dizzy as if it had stolen their souls."
Yadr TIL that in the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906, three men were caught alive on the roof of a hotel that was ablaze. Rather than see the men fall and be burned alive, a nearby military officer ordered his men to shoot them.
wWyE TIL that the Yellow Star imposed upon Jewish citizens in Nazi Germany was not a Nazi invention but originated in Medina under Islam in the 8th century