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

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PYPeE TIL that beer mugs are not called "steins" in Germany. "Stein" is the German word for "stone." The English word "stein" probably comes from the German word "Steinzeug" which means "stoneware"—the type of pottery that cheap beer mugs are often made of.
LQ5Dp TIL that there are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe.
Me0P0 TIL that many Disney movies from the 20th century reused several animation cells, so several scenes from various disney classics are identical.
m1JBM TIL that in 1994, a Washington State man’s death sentence was overturned because the Judge believed that the man’s weight could cause him to be decapitated by the scheduled hanging - deeming him “too obese to hang”
5Yv98 TIL Fabio Lanzoni once killed a goose with his face while riding a roller coaster