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TIL Netherlands is closing its jails because of prisoner shortage, they import prisoners from other countries to keep their prison machinery in order.

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GYWeG TIL that New Orleans city lifeguards threw a party to celebrate a season with no drownings. After the party, it was discovered that someone had drowned, despite there being at least 100 lifeguards present, 4 of whom were on duty during the party.
R7Xe1 TIL that Francis Ford Coppola was hired to direct The Godfather purely because he's Italian-American: the studio executives believed that only a director of Italian ancestry can make a good mafia movie.
ZpbPY TIL that Bobby Fischer reportedly had his dental fillings removed out of fear that they were being used to spy on him, turning his mouth into a potential radio transmitter.
oD58 TIL that a small, single story building at 1209 North Orange Street in Wilmington, DE is the registered home of over 6,500 corporations and 200,000 businesses, such as Google, American Airlines, Apple, GM, Coca-Cola, KFC, Verizon Internet Services, and Deutsche Bank
W7aaN TIL during a pool party in Mexico in 2013, eight party-goers were rendered unconscious and one 21-year-old male went into a coma after liquid nitrogen was poured into the pool.