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TIL It costs $44,563 to incarcerate a prisoner for a year in California—nearly the same price as a year at Harvard University with room and board

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Vpxp TIL a man named C.B. Fry is history’s ‘Ultimate All Rounder’: having attended Oxford University; represented England in Cricket and football; played in the FA Cup final; equaled the world long-jump record; as well as having proficiency in teaching, writing, broadcasting, and politics.
pekQ TIL Peter Falk lost his right eye to cancer at the age of three. He wore a glass eye in its place, which gave him his trademark squint.
KYlX6 TIL that the Toilet waste is never intentionally jettisoned from an aircraft. All waste is collected in tanks and emptied into toilet waste vehicles. Blue ice is caused by accidental leakage from the waste tank.
R55g8 TIL In politics and economics, a Potemkin village is any construction (literal or figurative) whose sole purpose is to provide an external façade to a country that is faring poorly, making people believe that the country is faring better.
QJMBL TIL that karate dojos are structured so that the lowest ranking students are nearest to the dojo entrance, meaning in the event of an attack the students would be killed first and the sensei would remain safe.