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TIL that a library in Dublin puts readers in cages to prevent them from walking off with rare books

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69Abl TIL of the Outcomes Paradox in schizophrenia — Patients treated for schizophrenia in some developing countries have better outcomes than patients treated for schizophrenia in developed nations.
69LvY TIL that James Capone, Al Capone's older brother, was a lawman who fought liquor dealers during Prohibition and arrested about twenty murderers. He later became a justice of the peace, changing his name to Richard James “Two Gun” Hart to distance himself from his infamous family.
PolO TIL Irene Triplett – the 86-year-old daughter of a Civil War veteran – collects $73.13 each month from her father’s military pension
8axwG TIL when Amelia Earhart was proposed by her boyfriend George Putnam, she suggested a one-year temporary marriage to test its feasibility . She also said, "On our life together I shall not hold you to any medieval code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly."
0wvgp TIL that the head of the German Nazi Intelligence service, Wilhelm Franz Canaris, deeply trusted by Hitler himself, had quietly worked to sabotage the Nazi war effort from the very first day, likely saving Western Europe.