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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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9j5D TIL that during the Great Recession, Australia didn’t bail out their banks. Instead, they gave each citizen $900, no questions asked. As a result, Australia was the only western country not to go into recession.
epKpk TIL of all the volcanoes on earth, on average one erupts every week
x9o0 TIL the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a police officer did not need a radar gun to confirm that a motorist was speeding, but that the officer’s visual estimate of speed was enough for a conviction
PYXjG TIL "micellar water" is actually just "soapy water" (in name and function)
neGr TIL that Edward James Olmos was contacted about being the captain of the Enterprise for The Next Generation but turned it down, only to become the captain of another famous ship later on.