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TIL 1 in every 100 american adults are in prison, and that the U.S has more people in prison than China.

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wojgJ TIL The first recorded steel cage wrestling match happened between Jack Bloomfield and Count Rossi in Atlanta, Georgia June 25th, 1937. The cage was a circular chicken wire structure.
NwDP TIL that the German Empire in its 47 years of existence, won more Nobel Prizes in science than Britain, France, Russia and the USA combined.
N7aE6 TIL Roman soldiers captured a group of gothic women who were masquerading as male soldiers around 3rd century AD. The women were paraded through the streets of Rome with signs that mockingly labeled them “Amazons”.
bgBj TIL a guy who called himself “the cookie monster” once stole a golden cookie and returned it after the cookie company donated cookies to a childrens hospital.
eGKn TIL that a movement seeks to rename the Australian dollar to the “dollarydoo”, based on a classic ‘The Simpsons’ episode. Doing so would increase demand for the currency and strengthen the Australian economy, organizers claim.