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TIL A 14-year-old boy was gang-raped by inmates during a judge-ordered visit to a prison for the Scared Straight program in the 1970s.

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96DQ TIL that during the 70s one suicide jumper from the Golden Gate Bridge had a note that read “I’m going to walk to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I will not jump.”
wojLW TIL that early versions of Sudoku started appearing in French newspapers in the late 19th century, with the paper La France’s version called the “diabolical magic square”
8xaV TIL Cryos, the world’s largest sperm bank, has started turning down redheaded donors because there is too little demand for their sperm
E1Zgx TIL the Silk Road black market founder Ross Ulbricht was caught because he used his Silk Road username in a forum asking for software help
LaRr TIL that China, Bangladesh and Grenada are the only countries where the female suicide rate is higher than the male rate