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TIL that a 2009 OIG audit found that there is a 35% error rate in the terrorist watch list. There are now estimated to be more than 700,000 names on that list.

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wL5a1 TIL in 2001, drug kingpin El Chapo escaped from prison in a dirty laundry basket. After bribing multiple guards, he was wheeled out of prison hidden inside it. The escape allegedly cost him over $2.5m. Over 70 guards were implicated including the warden, who's now in prison for the part he played.
WkGQY TIL that during World War 2, over 120 000 Japanese Americans were held in concentration camps around America, most without any reason except their race. It wasn't publicly acknowledged as a human rights violation by the US government until four decades later.
4XLR6 TIL: Iowa has a law that prevents new roads from being constructed diagonally. They want every road to be in a cardinal direction.
Aped TIL that mammals tend to have twice the number of teats as the typical number of offspring that would be born at once; this is why humans have two breasts
OoMkY TIL the title of the Japanese release of Meat Loaf's hit song "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" translates to "66% is Good Enough".