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TIL Brazil Prisons offer their prisoners to reduce their sentence for 4 days (up to 48 days/year) for every Book they read and write a report on.

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OLd6 TIL that the “service fee” on your phone bill is used by the FCC to provide communication to low income households, rural health clinics, and libraries.
X0Zoj TIL in 2000, Galoob Toys Inc. recalled about 8.9 million Sky Dancers flying dolls after receiving reports of injures which resulted from the doll striking adults and children, such as scratched corneas, broken teeth, a mild concussion, a broken rib, and facial lacerations that required stitches
6VWw TIL that if you bite into a Wint-O-Green Lifesaver in the dark you can see a spark. This is due to a phenomenon called ‘triboluminescence’
rN9r0 TIL about Rogers' Rangers, an independent ranger company attached to the British Army during the Seven Years' War. The Rangers disbanded in 1761 only to be revived as a Loyalist force during the American Revolution, with the US Army Rangers and Queen's York Rangers claiming descent.
QJdNE TIL Tom Rogers created Charlie the Tuna and based Charlie on his friend Henry Nemo. Nemo is known as the "creator of jive,” which resembles the loose-lipped slang used by Charlie the Tuna.