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TIL US incarceration rates exceeds the average incarceration levels in the Soviet Union during the existence of the infamous Stalin’s Gulag system

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Z8eNo TIL that in 2014, filmmaker Steven Soderberg released a unique cut of "Psycho" that incorporates footage from Hitchcock's original film and the 1998 remake by Gus Van Sant (with all color removed) to create one film. This version is called "Psychos"
gJo8 TIL in 1959, U.S. Postal Service successfully shipped mail using a cruise missile, delivering cargo from New Jersey to Florida in 22 minutes
9dB7 TIL that Target has a doppelganger in Australia called Target Australia. They have the same logo and sell the same merchandise as the American Target Corp yet they are entirely separate and unrelated companies.
kOoG5 TIL that Russia consumes about 12% of the world’s heroin, while it contains just 0.5% of the world’s population.
Kp76 TIL the Illiad does not describe the sack of Troy nor the building of the Trojan Horse. Achilles is not killed by an arrow in his heel and the story ends with Hector’s funeral.