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TIL inmates in Brazilian APAC prisons can reduce their sentence by 3 days per book they read and write a report on... A part of a larger program that has reduced recitivism from 70% to as low as 7% in these prisons.

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b6mA4 TIL a 16-years-old Audrey Hepburn became a volunteer nurse in a Dutch hospital and helped a young British paratrooper named Terence Young, her future director over 20 years later in “Wait Until Dark” (1967).
W7w7A Today I learned that a day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. Venus has an extremely slow rotation on its axis, taking about 243 Earth days to complete one rotation, while it only takes about 225 Earth days for Venus to orbit the Sun.
WkAYd TIL of Mostelaria, or "the haunted house": a Roman comedy play by Plautus, about a young man who trashes his father's house in a party while the latter in on a business trip and invents a story about the house been haunted in order to delay his father when he unexpectedly returns
8aogV TIL death row prisoners of Tennessee can choose between death by lethal injection or death by electric chair
8eNyb TIL that more international travellers visited Italy than Turkey in 2023