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TIL 10% of Florida's adult population are felons

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MnX8 TIL that when Samuel L. Jackson was a student at Morehouse college he became so upset with the lack of student representation on board of trustees that he held the entire board (including Martin Luther King Sr.) hostage by locking them in a building during a meeting.
grVAy TIL that in 2021, China instituted rules stating that cities with populations of less than 3 million people can't build skyscrapers taller than 492 ft, and for cities above 3 million, no new skyscrapers can be taller than 1,640 feet.
0dWAy TIL King John I of France had the shortest reign in French History. His father died 4 months before John’s birth and John became king on the day of his birth in 1316. Sadly he died 5 days later. There are rumors that he was murdered.
7Gor TIL Cruise ships are legally allowed to discharge (and they do) - raw, untreated sewage once they are three miles from shore. A typical cruise ship can produce up to 30,000 gallons of sewage a day.
d5VB TIL when building the Golden Gate Bridge, the lead structural engineer insisted on the installation of a safety net even though its $130,000 cost was deemed exorbitant. Over the four years of its construction, the net saved 19 men, who named themselves the “Halfway to Hell Club.”