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TIL The U.S. is one of only a few countries that does not guarantee retroactive amelioration (reduction of prison sentence based on changes in the law)

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R5be8 TIL Canadians coming back from Cornwall Island have to go through Canadian Border Services Agency, without ever having left Canada, because the road checkpoint is on the mainland and not on the island itself.
LkZRv TIL the stereotype of Native Americans saying "how" as a greeting comes from the Anglicization of the Lakota word "háu", which was used by men to greet other men.
R55R1 TIL that the Mona Lisa is not painted on a canvas, but on a wooden panel
N7Z56 TIL that Ray's Pizza was started by a Mob as a front for Drugs and Money laundering, But ended up making almost the same money as their drug buisness.
9wBLr TIL fingerprinting as a forensic science could have entered mainstream criminal investigation 50 years earlier than it did if Scotland Yard had heeded the advice of a small-village surgeon telling them to check for fingerprints in the throat-cut murder of Lord William Russell in May, 1840.