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TIL a think tank at Oxford University believes that the prison industry may begin exploring psychoactive drugs that elongate the perception of time, either reducing actual incarceration times or making sentences for heinous crimes feel like an eternity.

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OGArX TIL that it was once proposed to bury nuclear waste at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, with the theory that tectonic plate subduction would eventually push it down into the Earth's mantle
rN5Gd TIL that the foods "spotted dick" and "cockles" are an actual part of British cuisine.
v15NB TIL in 1987 a virus called Stoned was spread widely across Australia and New Zealand. The virus would display "Your computer is now stoned. Legalise Marijuana" in infected boot sectors of infected floppy disks and master boot records of infected hard disks.
nWovB TIL: that the Disco Ball was invented in 1917, more than 50 years before Disco music
8a6mX TIL the Lenape tribe were the original inhabitants of Manhattan, New York and were forced to leave 300 years ago. Tribes from across the country returned to New York last year for the first Pow Wow in centuries to celebrate their origin.