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TIL A month-long public hunt of invasive pythons is held on a vast expanse of state forests and other government-owned land north of Everglades national park.

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J9Av TIL a prison in Oregon had its windows sandblasted after residents complained that prisoners had better ocean views than the tax paying citizens.
vPP97 TIL facial movements commonly thought to signal particular emotions regardless of context, person, and culture are not universally diagnostic of emotional states
QJ69e TIL that the The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in the UK has a £1 million bounty to the first person who creates a product that is 100% chemical-free
Wx99 TIL In the late 1970s, a cache of nude photos was found containing images of all incoming freshmen at Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, and other Ivy League schools. The reason for the photos is still debated.
xrvo TIL when James Brady (the man paralyzed by a gunshot wound from the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt) died in 2014, it was ruled a homicide 33 years after the incident.