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TIL that states signed a 20-year contract and promised a 90 percent occupancy rate over that period to CCA to commit to maintaining prisons filled to capacity.

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N7d81 TIL about “pee paint,” a special paint that repels pee back on the pee-er. Cities use it in an attempt to reduce public urination on walls.
JYKVk TIL about Rio Rico an American town that was basically forgotten in Mexico and is the last piece of land ever ceded to a foreign power by the United States. It's residents were also granted US citizenship for having been born in the US.
j6Y5R TIL that Rowlatt Act, an act to repress people's civil rights in India was passed by Sir Sidney Rowlatt in 1919. His son, Sir John Rowlatt became the architect of the Government of India Act, 1935, which is the skeleton on which the present day Indian Constitution was drafted
NZOe TIL that the Catholic Church is the largest (non-governmental) provider of healthcare in the world
R7Eyw TIL in 1879 it was estimated the Oxford English Dictionary to take 10 years for completion, but in five years they'd only reached the word "Ant". After crowdsourcing readers to help it was completed 44 years later. The publishers now estimate it would take a single person 120 years to just type it.