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TIL that in 2009 Israel tried to create private prisons but their Supreme court ruled against it, saying they were a violation of basic human rights.

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J1lej TIL Hawaii only has only 5 counties and one of them is a former leper colony with a population of 81 and land area of 5.2 square miles, the smallest in the United States
gMA88 TIL that the reason we celebrate Christmas on the December 25th is because of the Roman calendar. This day marks the day of celebration for the sun god, Sol Invictus
N7d76 TIL: A janitor at Kodak in the 1980s rose to be the company’s Chief Technology Officer
R7o18 TIL that Dr. Seuss was childless, but invented a whole clan of fictional offspring with bizarre talents that he could bring up whenever friends annoyed him by boasting about their own kids' accomplishments. He even got a group of neighborhood kids into posing as them for a fake Christmas card photo
ADMRn TIL that 300 million years ago, trees didn't rot because the microbes to do so didn't exist yet.