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TIL that Prisons in Brazil reduce their sentences by 4 days for each book an inmate reads and writes a report on

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4X6N5 TIL Some members of the Donner party survived after their campfire fell through 25 feet of snow and landed on the ground, creating a cave-like area for them to shelter from an incoming winter storm.
4REa TIL there’s a geographically-isolated two-year college which aims to have a student body size of only 26. Students are taught academics and as well as farm-related manual labor. Most graduates continue their studies in reputable universities like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Oxford.
N7kdE TIL that there is a 29.97fps frame rate, because when color TV was first introduced, the color data couldn't be included without increasing the bandwidth, so instead they decided to remove one frame from the video every now and then to free up data.
nwM7 TIL Google Executive Alan Eustace broke Felix Baumgartner’s record for highest skydive on October 24th, 2014.
DQ9xV TIL: The word lens comes from lēns, the Latin name of the lentil (seed of a lentil plant) because a double-convex lens is lentil-shaped. The lentil also gives its name to a geometric figure.