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TIL 70%-90% of detainees at the Abu Ghraib detention facility were mistakenly imprisoned

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1Ew7 TIL to buy one of everything on Amazon.com, it would be $12.86 billion USD.
QNDEa TIL that a film version of "It Can't Happen Here" was passed on for being "anti-facist".
dle7 TIL the man who first artificially cloned a fish was later forced to give up his research and become a janitor by the Chinese government during the Cultural Revolution.
N7p6M TIL that the cheese Parmigiano-Reggiano is a large target of organised crime in Italy. From 2013 to 2015 an organised crime gang stole 2039 wheels of it from warehouses in northern and central Italy.
GA1R7 TIL That character actor William Smith, whose roles included the Russian Spetsnaz colonel in Red Dawn, nearly had a different career path. While in the Air Force Smith attained several top secret clearances and was considered for a role in the intelligence community before he decided on acting.