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TIL US prison workers produce $11bn worth of goods and services a year

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j6RpM TIL In 1938, Orson Welles on Halloween night, broadcast live an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel War of the Worlds over the CBS Radio Network. The episode is famous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was really taking place.
BgNNx TIL that the asteroid linked to the extinction of dinosaurs would have generated a 2.9 mile high tsunami, if it had impacted the earth in the deep sea as opposed to the 328ft in height that it was.
m1JbP TIL that while sloths only poop about once a week, it is responsible for 50% of all their deaths as this is the time where they are vulnerable to predators
0KWj TIL the Cold War is credited to have started in Canada, after a Soviet Cipher Clerk defected to Canada and revealed Stalin’s attempts to steal nuclear secrets.
Z8XrD TIL that standard QWERTY keyboards are used in China. Chinese users are familiar with the sounds that Latin letters make, and they type in the way their characters sound when spoken out loud. Software then translates the sound they typed into a Chinese character.