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TIL that "Scared Straight" programs actually have the opposite effect and my even increase delinquent and criminal behavior

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9wN0X TIL life expectancy in the Bronze and Iron Age was 26.
yVlv TIL that the price of gas in Norway is just over $10 per gallon.
Wkmyo TIL A scam artist tricked multiple US government agencies into spending over $20M on fake intelligence software. In 2003 the CIA grounded a US-bound flight after the software detected a credible threat had been made, and the con was discovered when the airline conducted an independent investigation.
JWEm TIL there is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics because Alfred Nobel did not want one.
JYn0j TIL actress Halle Berry was in an abusive relationship with co-actor Wesley Snipes. At one point he hit her so hard she lost 80% of her hearing in one ear.