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TIL that if each of the US states were a separate country, the 37 countries with the highest incarceration rates would all be US states.

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Zd6v TIL The US Army had an experimental reactor that went to 6000 times its maximum power and exploded while testing a reactor for arctic radar outposts. The reactor had no containment vessel, and the entire crew was killed. The manager was stuck to the ceiling with a component shot through his groin.
GnZ5 TIL there was supposed to be a Black Taj Mahal opposite of the original, but was never fully built.
e0M4k TIL there's a village in England called Fingringhoe.
wLyk1 TIL in April 2015, the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area, was burgled. The incident has been called the "largest burglary in English legal history." The heist was planned and carried out by elderly men.
MepP0 TIL Colorado has its own unique style of pizza (nowhere near as well known as Chicago or Detroit style).