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TIL that in alabama, a sherif can keep the extra money they “save” from prison meals. One sherif pocketed $200,000 worth of meal money after shrinking meal portions.

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Agjl TIL Everyone’s brain starts out as female. The brain of males begins to become masculinized around eight weeks after conception by the male hormone testosterone.
KO9JE Today I Learned: Gargoyles are fancy rain gutters. In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved or formed grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between.
GYZZg TIL cigarette butts are a huge threat to marine life, each one contaminating 40 liters of ground water for at least 7 days, exposing over 7000 toxins in the environment and taking up to 10 years to break down.
QJrRE TIL that The British Isles, Great Britain and The United Kingdom are not just alternative names, they are totally different. Even more astounding The British Isles is a collection of over 6,000 islands
D1mjY TIL that the word 'Trampoline' was created and Trademarked in 1936, and comes from the Spanish 'trampolín', meaning a diving board.