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TIL Between 60-70% of the French prison population is Muslim.

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MlmK TIL there was a crazy theory that the half-brother of Japan’s first Shogun survived the Shogun’s wrath after being seen as a political threat, and escaped to Mongolia. There he settled and changed his name to Genghis Khan.
X0Ga6 TIL About the 'Sideways Effect'. As a result of some dialogue in the movie Sideways pinot noir production and sales increased while sales of merlot decreased.
Noe6 TIL of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after flirting with a white woman. His killers were acquitted of the crime and later admitted to the murder. Till’s mother had an open-casket funeral to display the injustice, helping spur the civil rights movement.
ZmYR TIL that the top racial or ethnic slur on Twitter is “White boy” at 48.9%, followed by “Paki” (11.7%), “Whitey” (7.9%), “Pikey” (4.1%), “Coon” (3.2%), and others.
nWarb TIL Russia has over 2,500 nuclear generators scattered throughout its countryside