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TIL that there are now more Americans in jail than there were in Stalin’s Gulag Archipelago

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xV74k TIL the longest road in the world is the Pan-American Highway stretching 29,800 miles
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Me6mm TIL That foaming hand soap has been found to be less effective than regular liquid hand soap at removing bacteria
4XKQb TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger beat O.J. Simpson for the role of the Terminator because Simpson wasn't "menacing" enough to play a killer.
9YPYm TIL that 18th-century scientists believed that sperm contained tiny preformed humans that implanted in the woman’s reproductive system to grow in size.