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TIL Scared Straight programs are not only ineffective, studies show that they produce substantial increases in criminal relapse.

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5VdQk TIL that there is a Phallological Museum located in Reykjavík, Iceland which houses the world's largest display of penises and penile parts and the collection holds well over 300 penises from more than 100 species of mammal.
WnEA TIL that the ‘National Enquirer’ was the most reliable news source during the O. J. Simpson murder trial. According to a Harvard law professor who gave the media an overall failing grade, the 'Enquirer’ was the only publication that thoroughly followed every rumor and talked to every witness.
epkn4 TIL in 1858, as Congress was debating slavery in Kansas at 2:00AM, a large fight of 30+ Members erupted on the House floor. After the sitting house speaker banged his gavel and threatened to arrest noncompliant Members, the "melee dissolved into a chorus of laughs and jeers."
ODke TIL In 2009, an estimated 31,000,000 birds died from being confused by light pollution while migrating overnight. Simply turning off the lights can potentially save tens of millions of birds from colliding with glass.
gMkp8 TIL that the Life expectancy number we know for the middelages includes the infant mortality, so 13th-century English nobles had 30 year life expectancy at birth, but when they reached the age of 21, they would normaly have a expectancy of 64.