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TIL: In 2013, two judges were arrested for sending countless teens to juvenile private prisons in return for roughly 2.6 million dollars.

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E1Eao TIL that the show Scrubs has one of the most accurate portrayals of the actual way a hospital runs and all of its medical cases are taken from real life medical cases.
grdxX TIL After Qing China defeated and genocided the Dzungars, Dzungar leader Amursana fled to Siberia and died. The Qing Emperor demanded his body be surrendered for "posthumous punishment" (past examples: public display, destruction of ashes), but the Tsar refused, causing a diplomatic incident.
1ogW TIL The Original Illuminati was an Enlightenment-era secret society in Bavaria created on May 1st 1776, The society’s goals were to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power, and to support women’s education and gender equality.
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DQeBD TIL that the film version of the musical "In the Heights" nearly wasn't produced because Universal wanted a bankable star in the cast. While the film was in limbo, its writer Lin-Manuel Miranda went on vacation and bought a copy of Ron Chernow's "Hamilton", which inspired the show