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TIL that Hound Dog by Elvis Presley was a cover of a song sung by a woman, Big Momma Thornton. It makes so much more sense this way.

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Rjm6 TIL In 2011, a Supreme Court case decided that prisoners in a for-profit prison couldn’t sue anybody if their right from cruel and unusual punishment was violated, as it’s a corporation doing the cruel and unusual punishing, not the government.
wJV6 TIL of the Sonderkommando photographs - four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 by an inmate in Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.
5EK9 TIL a medium-sized dog has the same environmental cost as a SUV
okdr TIL near the of the song “Countries of the World” from the kid’s show “Amimaniacs”, Yako lists Palestine as a country.
epmV4 TIL about Alexis St. Martin who had a hole in his stomach after getting shot. At the time not much was known about the stomach and digestion so a physician performed experiments on St. Martin e.g. dangling meat through the hole directly into the stomach.