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TIL that jail is where you stay if you did something that made you stay behind bars for less than a year and prison is for when it is for more than a year.

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5V0OP TIL Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926.
8j4K TIL that John Quincy Adams, the 6th US President, took the presidential oath of office not after placing his hand on a Bible but upon a book of law.
GAeQj TIL Joseph Goebbels (Nazi minister of Propaganda) funded the development of a low-cost Radio ("Volksempfänger", the “people’s receiver”) which delivered State-Run "news" directly into the homes of German citizens. It was a "vital element of success" in the spreading Nazi ideology.
6AY TIL there is a disease where you eventually stop sleeping, and then die. There is no cure.