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TIL the average inmate at Alcatraz read 75-100 books per year.

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LQxgd TIL since 2000 the Federation of Québec Maple Syrup Producers maintained an "International Strategic Reserve" of maple syrup of more than 45 million kilograms across multiple warehouses in rural Québec towns. A barrel of maple syrup can be worth around 18 times the value of a barrel of US crude oil
xdEB TIL that Prince and Kendrick hit the studio to record a song, but had no time to record anything because they talked too much.
GAVAQ TIL the “One of us, Gooble Gobble” chant (popularized by South Park and Wolf of Wall Street) comes from the 1934 movie Freaks, a film about “sideshow freaks.”
X0XP6 TIL Self-Defense from a Tutorial Created in 1933
ZpeGD TIL why Californians (especially in SoCal) refer to their freeways as "the (highway)" (eg. "the 5", "the 101", etc.)