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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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b9emQ TIL Giant Squid are not the biggest species of squid. The Colossal Squid, although slightly shorter in length, has a larger, stouter body and is far heavier than the giant.
4YAa TIL Young people in Japan are not just having enough sex and this is a huge concern for the government.
x6Nj7 TIL that average human height went down from 5'10" (178 cm) for men and 5'6" (168 cm) for women to 5'5" (165 cm) and 5'1" (155 cm) 10,000 years ago and it took until the 20th century for average human height to match pre-Neolithic Revolution levels.
ANo7w TIL about Aaron Swartz, one of the architects of Creative Commons, creator of Internet Archives’ Open Library and founder of Watchdog.net
vPjXj TIL: Keep Calm and Carry On was the third of three posters designed by the UK's Ministry of Information in April 1939. Nearly 2.5 million copies were printed in the weeks before WWII, but almost all were subsequently pulped when public response to the first two posters was overwhelmingly negative.