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TIL that the Republic of San Marino has the lowest incarceration rate in the world

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yBBv TIL Robert Todd Lincoln was present, or near, 3 different presidential assassinations which prompted him to refuse a later presidential invitation with the comment “No, I’m not going, and they’d better not ask me, because there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present.”
bAaj TIL that due to stress, boredom, loneliness and other reasons many exotic birds kept in captivity will pluck their own feathers out or self-mutilate
BrxPk TIL that the King of Prussia had a personal army of 3000 tall men and admitted, "The most beautiful girl or woman in the world would be a matter of indifference to me, but tall soldiers—they are my weakness"
ZJrv TIL Sigourney Weaver made the no-look over the shoulder basketball shot in one take from Alien: Resurrection
6LRm TIL that after a terrible car accident that put Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc.) into a coma, the only thing that woke him up was one of Blanc’s neurologists that asked, “Bugs Bunny, how are you doing today?” He replied, “Myeeeeh. What’s up doc?”