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TIL inmates who were given dogs to train showed a decrease in blood pressure, decreased agressiveness, and were more successful in achieving positive results in training the canines than non-incarcerated trainers.

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R77e8 TIL that while on death row at San Quintin, Stanley ‘Tookie” Williams was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature for children’s books he wrote while in prison.
Bgx8e TIL about Saint Mary MacKillop, an Australian nun who in 1871 was excommunicated from the Catholic Church in retaliation for exposing child abuse by a priest.
4X5VN TIL: "Lunch atop a skyscraper" - one of Americas most iconic photos taken in 1932 was staged as part of photo-shoot to promote the opening of the Rockefeller centre in New York. This is just one of several photos featuring real steel workers taken as part of the same photo-shoot.
KygB TIL that the Australian military has never fought a human opponent on Australian soil.
X0ed6 TIL of the Loughton incinerator thefts. Between 1988 and 1992 at the Bank of England's incinerator plant, four employees stole more than £600,000 of used bank notes due for incineration. They were eventually found out when the husband of one tried to deposit £100k in used £20s and £50s.