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TIL that as of October 2022, Norway spends $127,671 per inmate per year, which is more than the United States' average of $25,000.

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8emwL TIL in only two seasons in Oakland, the American Basketball Association Oakland Oaks won 28% of their games the first year and 77% in their second, including the 1969 ABA Championship. The main difference was Rick Barry, who joined for one year after a salary dispute with the NBA’s Warriors.
OGK7 TIL Eminem’s wife slit her wrists after attending one of his concerts and hearing a song about her called ‘Kim’.
wykJ TIL in 1975, Alaska legalized recreational Marijuana use, and it’s still legal today
JYXb4 TIL Vasily Arkhipov was the sole officer aboard a submarine who refused to authorize a nuclear strike, presumably saving the world from nuclear destruction during the cold war.
V0b0 TIL there is a disease that affects the inner ear and amplifies all internal sounds. It gets to the point where the sound of the eyeballs moving in their sockets sounds like “sandpaper on wood”