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TIL prison inmates in Ohio made a computer hidden in the ceiling, wich was connected to the prisons network

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v17Rj TIL a 2017 study found that the average adult currently enjoys sex 54 times a year, which equates to about once a week. Another study published in 2015 found that the once weekly frequency was the Goldilocks standard for happiness.
exx4 TIL that Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito were roommates in college.
R7gd8 TIL The recipe for Tootsie Rolls calls for the previous day’s batch to be mixed in with the new batch each day. Theoretically, this means there’s a bit of the very first Tootsie Rolls in every new roll made today. They were created in 1907.
KOBQw TIL one of the longest running civil wars in the world is the Karen Conflict, which has been going on since 1949 between the Burmese/Myanmar government and the Karen minority nationalists in Karen State, Myanmar.
xVYrD TIL that the gorilla, our close ape relative, has a bite force of 1,000 pound-force that can snap any bone in the human skeleton (900 pound-force to break a femur). In comparison, the bite force of a human being is at a mere 296 pound-force.