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

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KKVJ TIL For those who have trouble sleeping researchers say that 1 week of camping, without electronics, resets our biological body clock and synchronizes our melatonin hormones with sunrise and sunset.
8a5OP TIL "Trial by combat" has never been abolished in the United States and is still technically valid by US law
gr6Eb TIL Streptococcus viridans, a Bacteria which commonly occurs in our Oral Cavity causes Sub-acute Endocarditis.
jN1an TIL that a woman’s skull was unearthed in David Attenborough’s back garden, solving a 130 year old murder mystery.
7rjGr TIL 9% of Americans believe that space aliens or beings from another dimension were involved in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.