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TIL A prisoner at Guantanamo Bay received letters from his family members, and prison staff redacted all statements such as, “we miss you daddy”, “we love you daddy”, and “we’re thinking of you” from the letters in order to increase the ammount of hopelessness and despair he was feeling.

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dZR8 TIL Norway has no minimum wage, however Mcdonald’s workers make between 95 - 140+ kroner ($16-24USD) per hour depending on their age.
MeO5K TIL that the enzyme bromelain in pineapples literally digest the tissues in your mouth, hence the sore mouth feeling when you eat pineapples.
yQpYX TIL Austrian inventor Erwin Perzy is considered as the inventor of snow globe who accidentally came up with the idea in 1900. His grandson Erwin Perzy III still runs the family business specializing in custom-made snow globes.
690VJ TIL the manchineel tree, one of the deadliest plants on Earth, produces a sweet, apple-like fruit that’s highly toxic. Native to the Caribbean and Florida, its sap causes severe burns and blistering on contact, and even a taste of the fruit or inhaling smoke from its wood can be fatal.
yVlXl TIL that all polar bears in Iceland are shot on sight. They are not native to the island, and dangerous because they are hungry after floating over on ice from Greenland. It is too difficult and expensive to return them home.