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TIL Iceland has 137 prisoners, 4 of whom are women… Total.
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TIL on November 20, 2004, at the annual Harvard–Yale football game Yale students, costumed as a Harvard “pep squad”, gave out placards to a section of Harvard fans which, when raised together, read “WE SUCK”.
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TIL that writing notes by hand causes you to remember the material better than typing it on a computer. This is because when writing by hand, people tend to process the material in depth, rather than just transcribe it verbatim.
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TIL Louis Braille, the inventor of the reading and writing system for the blind Braille perfected it when he was just 15
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TIL that despite the common misconception, in most countries ship captains are not actually able to perform marriages, and the United States Navy had to make a rule specifically forbidding captains from doing so.
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TIL the Fuegian dog, was a domesticated culpeo, a native fox to South America that resembles a red fox, by the indigenous Yaghan peoples. They were exterminated by white settlers for being dangerous to the settler's goats.