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TIL that in a Massachusetts prison, there is a program that partners Inmates with abused Stray Dogs

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X06Ok TIL F. Scott Fitzgerald created football's "Two Platoon System," with different offensive and defensive players; before giving Michigan Coach Fritz Crisler the idea in 1945, the same players played both sides of the ball. As a freshman, the 135-pound Fitzgerald didn't make Princeton's team.
Rjy8 TIL that Scientology has its own prison called “The Hole” where Scientology executives are sent for months or even years of confinement, manual labor and humiliation.
YpQG7 TIL Djibouti author Abdourahman Waberi wrote a story about a world in which Africa was more advanced compared to the West. In her writing, Zurich held the highest rate of AIDS infections and African leaders were making broad pronouncements about the hoards of impoverished, starving Japanese
P1X9L TIL of "Father Yod", a WW2 veteran turned martial arts expert turned Hollywood restaurant owner who became a spiritual leader with 13 wives and eventually died in a freak hang gliding accident
D1ewJ TIL the reason why Cashews are sold without shells is the shells are poisonous. The Cashew tree is in the same family of plants as Poison Ivy. Eating the shell would cause a similar reaction to eating a Poison Ivy plant.