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TIL 1% Of All Americans Are In Jail

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DKbV TIL ATM PINs were originally intended to have six digits, but have four because the inventor’s wife said she could only remember that many.
E8N0 TIL Morocco has the oldest operating university. Older than Oxford, it was founded by a woman in 859 AD.
Vgr0 TIL Rocco Siffredi, an Italian porn star, made a commercial for potato chips in which he says “I’ve tried a lot of potatoes, but none are as good as these.” The Italian word for potato is a euphemism for vagina.
JYLw8 TIL that the melting clocks in Salvador Dali's famous painting "The Persistence of Memory" were inspired when Dali saw the look of a Camembert cheese- a soft French cheese- melting in the sun
V5J8 TIL John Glenn was the first person to eat in space aboard Friendship 7 in 1962. At that time it was unknown if ingestion and absorption of nutrients were possible in zero gravity. Glenn ate applesauce, demonstrating that people could eat, swallow, and digest food in a weightless environment.