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TIL that the main reason for such a high percentage of Americans being behind bars is that 95% of cases never get to court. The “plea bargain” exchanges lighter sentences for guilty pleas, but eliminates all chance of appeal.

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VMExZ TIL Joseph Pilates was a German working in England when WW1 broke out. While interned in a prison camp he developed a method of exercise prisoners could perform in confined space using just their own body weight. It worked well and was a hit, and he eventually moved to the US in 1926.
b574 TIL over half of the Alcoholics Anonymous “12 steps” refer to God
Wk8vY TIL that the first alphabetical English dictionary was written by schoolteacher Robert Cawdrey in 1604 and the only surviving copy is found at the Bodleian Library in Oxford
DQanP TIL During the 1990's, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo unsuccessfully experimented with anthrax, botulinum toxin, cholera, Ebola, and Q fever.
VA7p TIL that Canada has possibly over 3 million lakes - that is more than all other countries combined! Thus, Canada has more fresh water than any other country and almost 9% of Canadian territory is water.