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TIL the California capitol punishment program (death penalty) has spent $4 billion USD to execute 13 people since 1978.

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Z8QY TIL that all three Scandinavian countries (Sweden, Norway and Denmark) are within the 10 least corrupt countries in the world
RBk9 TIL in Finland, speeding tickes are calculated on a percentage of a person’s income. This causes some Finnish millionaires to face fines of over $100,000.
aw89L TIL the teeth of thousands of young men being killed on Europe’s battlefields were taken by scavengers and shipped back to England to be used as donor's teeth. This was seen as patriotic.
jNklX TIL the amount of arable land (land that crops can grow on) per person on the planet is .19 hectacres, less then half a football field (excluding endzone).
ANWAw TIL Upton Sinclair, author of "The Jungle", was the Democrat nominee for governor of California in the 1934 election