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TIL: The Prison Mirror is believed to be the oldest continuously published prison paper in the U.S.

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VMoGD TIL that in the year 1909, the British Intelligence Agency MI6 was formed but it was kept such a secret that it wasn't formally acknowledged until the year 1994.
jjOX TIL that of all the 14,748 homicides in the US in 2010, roughly 43% of the victims were African-American, a group who only make up 13% of the population; furthermore, a majority of the victims were young black males, while the perpetrators were similarly young black males.
yVQnw TIL in 1925 William Randolph Hearst purchased the cloisters of a Spanish monastery, had it dismantled brick by brick, and shipped it all to the US. The pieces sat in a Brooklyn, NY warehouse for 26 years until two entrepreneurs bought them and rebuilt the structure in North Miami, FL.
ZDNp TIL that there is a Japanese family that has run the same hotel for nearly 1300 years.
ne0MP TIL McDonalds did away with their spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons