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TIL Brazil has 49 prisons with no guards, where a system of self-rule among inmates has proved a striking success. These prisons "are cheaper to run, have lower rates of recidivism, and are designed to benefit the wider community."

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6EYZX TIL: The hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a female lion is called a Tigon & that of a male lion and a female tiger is called a Liger.
wLmAo TIL Actor Jason Statham competed in Diving for Great Britain at the 1990 Commonweath Games in Auckland
8aBaL TIL that during the Cuban Missile Crisis a false alarm of nuclear war almost made a Soviet nuclear submarine near the U.S launch it's nukes. However the order for a launch needed 3 approvals and Arkhipov refused. So this guy is the only reason why all of us are still alive today
lMvA TIL that the first building in the world to ban smoking was the Old Government Building in Wellington, New Zealand in 1876. This was due to concerns about the threat of fire, as it is the second largest wooden building in the world.
1a07O TIL, when Paul Reuter developed his own news agency (Reuters News Agency) he used carrier pigeons to give Berlin news from the Paris stock exchange, as they were speedier than trains.