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TIL Netherlands closed 19 prisons last year due to the lack of criminals

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vB5j TIL it only took just a little over a month before Silkroad was back up and online again after being shut down by the FBI last October.
Lra0 TIL JD Salinger never relinquished rights for audiobooks. The only legal way to obtain a Catcher in the Rye audiobook, is to have “permission” from a physician or ophthalmologist to listen to a “legal audiobook” recorded for the Library of Congress, who can do so by law, but only for the blind.
QJXYM TIL that The Beatles watched George Harrison lose his virginity and they cheered in the end.
Oonjg TIL that US Military tombstones come with 65 choices of religious symbol, including the hammer of Thor
nxYb TIL that NASA, in fact, did NOT spend millions of dollars producing the space pen while soviet astronauts simply used a pencil.