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TIL each dollar spent on prison education reduces incarceration costs by $4 to $5 during the first three years after a prisoner is released.

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GYYVE TIL blowing into a vagina can cause a potentially fatal air embolism
E1kl7 TIL: On March 28 1990 Michael Jordan scored a career high 69 points against Cleveland
nako TIL that a ‘micromort’ is a unit given to the amount of times a person will die out of a million tries (for example, going skydiving is 7 micromorts, meaning that there is a 7/1,000,000 chance that a person will die after a trip)
WNRN TIL that the male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates. The male then tastes the pee and that helps it determine whether the female is ovulating. If she is, it’s business time.
1alMd TIL from 1957 Christopher Lee was known for roles in horror films, playing Dracula many times, Frankenstein's monster, and the Mummy. Lee tired of playing Dracula but felt obliged to continue as the films were sold on his participation - people would be out of work if the films weren't made