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TIL that Americans spell judgement without the e (judgment)

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Eg8lV TIL about the Lost Cause myth that originated after the Civil War by white Southerners to justify their defeat by downplaying slavery's role, celebrating an idealized South, and persisting through Confederate monuments and racial ideologies that ignore the true nature of slavery or the Civil War.
LQDm0 TIL That a Panopticon is a specifically designed jail that allows all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single security guard, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being watched.
yQdvp TIL: Aggression/aggressive behavior is stable over time, meaning if someone is aggressive at 5 years old they will be aggressive at 15 years old, 25 years old, 40 years old etc (without intervention)
m1dDp TIL Sabaton was originally called "Aeon" when the band was formed in 1999.
PYgXV TIL inmates in Brazilian APAC prisons can reduce their sentence by 3 days per book they read and write a report on... A part of a larger program that has reduced recitivism from 70% to as low as 7% in these prisons.