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TIL that Aboriginal Australians have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

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Mv67 TIL Japanese Death Row inmates are not told their date of execution. They wake up each day wondering if it might be their last.
GY1mJ TIL Reporters Without Borders list the US as an Enemy of the Internet along with China, Russia, UK, North Korea, Iran and 13 other countries. These countries mark themselves out by their capacity to censor news and information online but also for their almost systematic repression of Internet users
YN6P TIL Corinthian leather is a term coined by the advertising agency Bozell to describe the upholstery used in certain Chrysler luxury vehicles. The term suggests that the product has a relationship to or origination from Corinth, but the supplier was located outside Newark, New Jersey
R5Wbj TIL, Until the evolution of the printing press in the 15th century, use of modern numbers (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9), also called Arabic numerals, in Europe was mainly confined to Northern Italy.
KO7QE TIL Every year on Dec. 24 at 3 p.m., the 1958 Walt Disney Christmas special, “Donald Duck and his friends wish you a Merry Christmas" airs on Sweden’s main public-television channel, TV1