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TIL that in the 1960s and ‘70s Lego produced a line of bricks intended for professional use by architects and planners under the name Modulex.

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WDVX TIL that even if all non-violent drug offenders were released from federal and state prisons the United States would still have the highest incarceration rate in the world
b91k9 TIL that the term "spontaneous order" is used to describe the spontaneous emergence of order out of chaos in various contexts, such as in the formation of language.
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