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TIL On average, people who have been incarcerated are at twice the risk of death by suicide — even years after their release — compared to those never imprisoned.

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ymJv TIL 19 Ph.D’s were given an incorrect formula for determining the volume of a sphere and asked to verify it by filling the sphere with water and measuring the volume of the water, all but one clung to the incorrect formula despite empirical observations.
EgyL7 TIL When Eli Wallach arrived in Madrid, Spain, all of the hotels were full. Clint Eastwood invited him to sleep over at a friend's house, and they shared the same bed. Wallach's wife Anne Jackson told him he could boast that he was the only man to sleep with Clint Eastwood.
WoAB TIL Egypt isn’t the country with the most pyramids. It’s Sudan and they have approximatively 255 pyramids !
L4Gv TIL: In 1946, Salvador Dali created a short film with Walt Disney that didn’t see the light of day for 58 years
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