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TIL There are more black people under correctional control (prison, jail, parole, probation) today, than were enslaved in 1850

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QNGYM TIL that at one point the sales of vodka accounted for 1/3rd of the Russian national budget.
VMe4Q TIL Jaguars have twice the bite strength of a tiger
gMn6W TIL of the meteor that hit the Russian town of Chelyabinsk, The light from the meteor was brighter than the Sun, visible up to 100 km (62 mi) away and released 26 to 33 times as much energy as that released from the atomic bomb detonated at Hiroshima.
mrEo TIL that pre-Incan people are still living on man-made floating islands of grass, as they have for hundreds of years, on lake Titicaca
p8K7b TIL The Americas was the British preferred location for prisoners, and it only became Australia until the US gained its independence.