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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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xxKk TIL OJ Simpson was originally cast to play Terminator, but the studio was afraid that no one would buy him as a remorseless killer.
OALY TIL Georgia Tech accepts Bitcoin as a form of payment on campus, and at their stadium.
VMJWQ TIL bubble gum is traditionally pink because its inventor wanted to mask the gray color of the original formula with the dye he had on hand: red.
1a45X TIL when Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco was assasinated in 1973, the bomb was so powerful that it sent his car flying over the roof of a building and into the courtyard.
v1ZXx TIL about "refeeding syndrome". Where many WW2 prisoners suffering from starvation died after over eating after release at the end of the war.