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TIL 1 out of every 2,000 residents in the United States are imprisoned for life, the highest rate in the world

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15KD TIL Almost 700 Hours of recorded interviews of former Black slaves are publicly online available at the Library of Congress. They sing songs and discuss their feelings on slavery, freedom, their families and slavemasters.
Wk55X TIL that Hayao Miyazaki drew a manga based on the memoirs of Otto Carius, a German tank commander, called Tigers Covered with Mud.
mBxP TIL that the 1918 flu pandemic is often called the Spanish flu because Spain didn’t fake and minimise the data about the dead like Germany, Britain, France and the USA.
p81jA TIL the four-leaf clover symbol, usually associated with shamrocks and Irish culture, is actually depicting the common wood sorrel which isn't a species of clover at all!
Xbbk TIL Banana Boat had a class action lawsuit filed against them. A lab tested their SPF 50 at only SPF 12.69, as well as Consumer Reports stating “28 out of 60 lotion bottles contain less SPF protection than they claimed on the labels”