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TIL the costliest prison in the U.S., the Colorado Supermax, is $78,000 per prisoner per year. Guantánamo bay costs $2.8 million per prisoner per year.

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D1MRJ Til - from 1741 - 1751 Maratha empire attacked Bengal Subah six times resulted close to 400,000 people in Bengal and Bihar killed where most attack was plundering villages which considered to be among the deadliest massacres in Indian history.
j66ln TIL the Māori name for France is Wīwī, derived from the French phrase "oui, oui"
ZpZ74 TIL that there is a species of spider which produces 'milk' from its own body, which it uses to nurse baby spiderlings for the first several weeks of their lives. It's one of only 120 species of spider that can stand the company of others for more than three weeks.
moDo TIL that in 1805 Thomas Jefferson hosted an Iftar at the White House. An Iftar is the fast-breaking meal eaten at sunset during Ramadan.
e0yGn TIL blanket octopuses are immune to the sting of Portuguese man-o-wars and have been known to collect stinging tentacles from the jellyfish-like creatures and wield them like weapons to fend off predators.