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TIL Alexander the Great admired Achilles and that the city of Troy was probably a part of modern day Turkey

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15vP TIL that the United States has less than 5% of the world’s population, but almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners. The United States has more citizens in prison than any other country in the world.
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