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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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GAQJN TIL Randy Rhoads died in a plane piloted by their tour bus driver that he took without permission after stopping to have their bus serviced near an airstrip. He made one trip transporting people but kept "buzzing" (flying right above) the bus to scare passengers until he flew too low and clipped it.
oBMnK TIL dates are not a "dried fruit". The brown and crinkly appearance is actually what they look like "fresh" when ripe on the tree.
YpPyx TIL McDonald's purchases over 2 billion eggs per year which equates to 4 percent of eggs produced in the United States.
78Wvb TIL there are 160 separate photographic portraits of Frederick Douglass, which is more than Abraham Lincoln.
YpK7x TIL that Dominica and Nicaragua are the only two nations in the world to have the color purple included in their national flags.