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TIL The Netherlands are closing eight prisons across their country because of lack of crime.

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odxY TIL Teddy Roosevelt helped save American Football by urging rules changes to make the game safer after 19 players died during the 1905 season.
XENVP TIL: Honey can exist unspoiled and still edible, almost indefinitely. Archeologists excavating Egyptian tombs have uncovered preserved pots of honey several thousand years old.
ANZDa TIL there was once a project to build a canal across Florida to shorten the route between the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. It was about half completed when President Nixon cancelled it for environmental reasons.
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