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TIL Prisoners in Brazil can shorten their sentence by reading and writing a report on a book

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e0bb4 TIL: Entrepreneur Laura Scudder (1881-1959), a pioneer of marking food with freshness dates & of using chips bags was refused insurance by male agents. After decades she gave up a $9 million offer for her company when the buyer wouldn't guarantee workers' jobs. (A later $6M offer did protect them.)
GYWvj TIL that the Gateway Arch in St. Louis is actually just as wide as it is tall - it is 630 feet in height and 630 feet in width. It is also the tallest man-made monument in the United States.
vPBPx TIL when Conan O'Brien reached a settlement with NBC over the Tonight Show drama, he was awarded $45 million, $12 million of which was for his staff who had moved with Conan to Los Angeles from New York when he left Late Night.
kOXn1 TIL about Jacques Bergier, a jewish white russian with an eidetic memory, emigrant in France, became a genius in many disciplines and science-fiction editor, resistant and prisoner at Mauthausen camp during WW2, his last words were "I am not a legend".
N7DwN TIL One nuclear fuel pellet, roughly the size of a pencil eraser, provides as much energy as one ton of coal or nearly 150 gallons of oil.