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TIL That a prisoner in Venezuela makes more money a week from prison than I do in a month!

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yLbM TIL of the ’ Andrew Carnegie Dictum’ - to spend the first third of one’s life getting all the education one can, to spend the next third making all the money one can and to spend the last third giving it all away for worthwhile causes.
LQowv TIL that Donald Sutherland battled rheumatic fever, hepatitis, and poliomyelitis in his childhood.
E1WmX TIL - The world's most dangerous race takes place on the 'ISLE OF MAN' (260 deaths)
8a5OP TIL "Trial by combat" has never been abolished in the United States and is still technically valid by US law
kJQwE TIL that Margery Kempe (c. 1373–after 1438) was an English mystic and author of the first English autobiography. Known for intense visions, extreme devotion, loud public sobbing, preaching without approval, accusations of heresy, and extensive pilgrimages across Europe and the Holy Land.