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TIL all the crown princes of Europe married commoners

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DQwKP TIL that Wyoming spends $136,000 on each prison inmate annually, while Mississippi spends $18,410. The average state spends $45,771.
D1r8g TIL a frozen zoo is a storage facility in which genetic materials taken from animals are stored at very low temperatures. Material preserved in this way can be stored indefinitely and used for artificial insemination, in vitro fertilisation, embryo transfer, and cloning.
NXMAN TIL Alberta, Canada is one of only 3 places on Earth considered rat-free. There is no resident population of rats.
Rpo8 TIL in the early days of sound movies, before dubbing, actors had to shoot each scene three times: one in English, one in Spanish, and one in either French or German (speaking their lines phonetically.) Buster Keaton complained about “having to shoot lousy films not just once, but three times.”
8amg8 TIL: “Good Germans” is an ironic term, referring to German citizens during and after World War II who claimed not to have supported the Nazi regime.