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TIL: Prisoners in Sweden live better than the low income American

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9YydM TIL almost 20 years after the attacks experts are still working to identify remains of 9/11 victims
Br79r TIL that in Cape Town, a cannon has been fired everyday since 1806 to signal noon. It was traditionally used so that ships could set their chronometers.
ZpwRp TIL about the Basus war, a tribal war that spanned 40 years over the murder of a camel.
ZknR TIL that Ada Lovelace, a female English mathematician and writer, wrote an algorithm in the mid 1800s designed to be carried out by a machine. As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer programmer.
PKbJ TIL during the voice recording for 1986’s “Transformers: The Movie” Orson Welles complained to his biographer that he had spent the day “playing a toy in a movie about toys who do horrible things to each other.”