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TIL Brazil prisons offer their prisoners the chance to reduce their prison sentence by four days (up to 48 days/year) for every book they read and write a report on

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e0o1b TIL that the USA produces so much cheese they have 'Cheese Caves' to store it all in
e0kWD TIL of the Lizardman Constant, which basically says that 4% of polling data is worthless due to people either being insane or deliberately corrupting your data
Eg0Z7 TIL that Scooby-Doo has starred in 14 separate animated TV series since 1969
EgrBo TIL before he could start editing and technically enhancing the "Get Back" documentary Peter Jackson first had to listen to 130 hours of audio and watch 57 hours of film footage of the Beatles writing and rehearsing
x6Le1 TIL a tropical storm hit Long Beach, California in 1939 which is the only cyclone to make landfall in California in the twentieth century. Such events are rare in the Pacific because cyclones feed off the energy stored in warm ocean waters but weaken in the cool waters of the California Current