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TIL that New York imprisons more people per capita than Rwanda, where tens of thousands are awaiting trial for their role in the 1994 genocide there

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4XW0g TIL that Earnest Hemingway was a spy for the US against Cuba from 1942 through 1944
1gZd TIL Wall Street’s iconic 7,100lb bronze Charging Bull sculpture is actually an illegal piece of street art
QNZb9 TIL the first reference of the phrase 'May the fourth be with you' being used was on May 4, 1979, the day after Margaret Thatcher was elected as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
E1x5W If a predator is lurking nearby, a mother mallard will pretend to be injured to distract it from her brood.
oB6R7 TIL The Beatles' first use of studio trickery was on the first song on their first album, "I Saw Her Standing There." Their producer George Martin used an 'especially spirited' count-in from take 9 (“One, two, three, FOUR!”) and spliced it onto take 1, which was the take used on the album.