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TIL That in India inmates take yoga to reduce their jail sentences and very few have resorted to crime after their release.

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0lMp TIL Gunsmoke, the longest running television series of the 20th century, was cancelled so abruptly that CBS didn’t even bother to tell the cast and crew. They read about it in trade publications the next day.
XE4NX TIL there is a freshwater parasite called Naegleria fowleri that can enter your brain through your nasal cavity while swimming in freshwater lakes/poorly sanitized pools. The parasite destroys human brain tissue and is over 97% fatal within days.
jOBp TIL Christoph Waltz received a total of 15 nominations for his roles in Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. He won 11 of these, including the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and the BAFTA Awards for BOTH films.
RLAj TIL that until 2005, Toronto had a St. James-Bond Church, formed by the 1928 merger of the Bond Street Congregational Church and the St. James Square Presbyterian Church.
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