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TIL that the Mercantile Library of Cincinnati has a perpetually renewable 10,000-year lease from the Cincinnati College, after members of the Library Association helped rebuild the college when its structure burned in 1845

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Rjm6 TIL In 2011, a Supreme Court case decided that prisoners in a for-profit prison couldn’t sue anybody if their right from cruel and unusual punishment was violated, as it’s a corporation doing the cruel and unusual punishing, not the government.
Xx5j TIL: Ancient Romans would dye their hair black, because blonde hair was associated with prostitutes or French and German slaves. This trend began declining when Augustus Caesar, who was blonde, became Rome’s first emperor.
VBG10 TIL that on Halloween in 2008 Doritos released a horror game called Hotel 626 that you could only play from 6pm to 6am and would call you in the middle of the night to scare you
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