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

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v1xm4 TIL why the cut apple turns brown. It turns out that the enzymes and polyphenols in the apple react with oxygen; now some apples on the market will not change color because they have been genetically modified.
woeNP TIL about Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud's nephew and the man known as the father of PR. He helped Woodrow Wilson convince Americans to enter WW1, turned Bacon and eggs into 'The True American Breakfast' and made it acceptable for women to be smoking publicly.
drQK TIL that Thomas Edison taught his second wife Morse code so they could communicate in secret by tapping into each other’s hands when her family was around
yd7v TIL a species of Indonesian parrot called Goffin’s cockatoo can solve complex mechanical puzzles
5VDp8 TIL about the Manhattan Schist: a 450 million year old piece of bedrock, remnants of the Appalachian Mountains, that exists close to and above the surface of the ground. Something not seen anywhere else in the world, and one of the main reasons it’s possible for Manhattan’s dense skyscrapers