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TIL El Salvador has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with 1086/100,000 people in jail

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gK1y TIL Saudi Arabia once surgically paralyzed someone as punishment for a crime
BK7r TIL when humans are embryos, the first thing we do is form into a doughnut. The doughnut hole becomes our entire digestive tract.
v1m7K TIL that there is a place in England called Barton in the Beans
oA4E TIL Teddy Roosevelt wore a ring to his inaugural ceremony that was made with hair removed from Abraham Lincoln’s body during his autopsy.
dDJYB TIL Jimi Hendrix was not encouraged in his musical talents as a child. He got his first guitar at the age of fifteen, and his first electric guitar a year later.