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TIL that the U.S. criminal justice system employs more people than America’s two largest private employers - Wal-Mart and McDonald’s - combined, and has proportionally almost 6 times more blacks locked up than South Africa did at the height of Apartheid

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y71J TIL that every Friday 8.2 percent of Norwegian households eat tacos – “Taco Friday” is one of the most well-known meal traditions in the country
0krp TIL during the Holocaust one Jewish woman exposed between 600 and 3000 hiding Jews to the Gestapo to prevent her family from being sent to a concentration camp. Even after the Nazis sent her parents and husband to Auschwitz anyway in 1943, she continued to work for the Gestapo until 1945
l7BPN TIL that actor Nicolas Cage's stage name was inspired in part by the Marvel Superhero "Luke Cage". He decided to change it when people would keep quoting films of his uncle Francis Ford Coppola to him.
J1Jel TIL Madagascar’s east coast is virtually dead straight for over 500 miles.
0pO5 TIL that a tribe in Brazil uses a glove filled with hundreds of the most painful ants stinging ants in the world, the bullet ant, as an initiation rite for young men. The rite can happen for up to ten minutes, must occur a total of 20 times before the boy is declared a man.