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TIL 10% of Florida's adult population are felons

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YD17 TIL that there are 3,778 Americans claiming Asylum in other countries because they feel persecuted by America
pXgQ TIL famous murder mystery author Anne Perry writes from experience, as she herself spent five years in prison at age fifteen for murdering her friend’s mother
4kaBb TIL that Japanese war criminal Hitoshi Imamura, believing that his sentence of 10 years imprisonment was too light, built a replica prison in his garden where he stayed until his death in 1968
0dy01 TIL there is species of spider named Aptostichus barackobamai, more commonly referred to as the "Barack Obama trapdoor spider"
BrVMd TIL S. E. Hinton, the writer of the Novel, The Outsiders, was 15 when she started writing the book, 16 when she finished most of it and 18 when it was published.