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TIL the two biggest private prison organizations in the US have clauses in their contracts that require the prisons to stay at least 90% full at all times.

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6mDm TIL Tesla motors received a $465m loan in 2009. Despite rampant skepticism, Tesla paid it back in full by May 2013. It was the first car company to do so.
AP7x TIL Kurt Cobain accidentally spat on Elton John’s piano at the 1992 VMA’s thinking it belonged to Axl Rose
Wky79 TIL children can regrow amputated fingertips. In 2016, when a 7-year-old girl's fingertip was torn off, surgeons stuck the tip back on to protect the wound but told the parents that it would likely die. Eight days later it had died, and in its place had grown a perfectly functional new one.
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