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TIL a Survey of U.S. States Found More Mentally Ill Persons Are in Jails and Prisons Than Hospitals

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LkdKv TIL Disney was planning to buy Twitter but then decided to cancel the deal because of the “nastiness” on the social media platform.
PY8Mw TIL that a horse actually has up to 15 horse powers.
E6Qd TIL that there is a limit of 12 minutes of commercials, per hour of television, in the United Kingdom.
A5Xa TIL 35 years before the Holocaust, Germany committed one of the first genocides of the 20th century in modern-day Namibia. German forces sealed off the Namib desert leaving up to 100,000 native Africans to die of starvation and exposure.
jNBZN TIL that the wife of Japanese fighter pilot Hajime Fujii drowned herself and their two daughters in 1944. She wanted to unburden him of his fatherly duties so he could focus on his military obligations.