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

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OoRAY TIL Jeremy Bentham's dressed skeleton is on display in the UCL Student Union. Bentham donated his body to science, but requested that after dissection, they preserve and dress his body in his own clothes, and bring him to meetings and social events. He died in 1832 and was moved to UCL in 1850.
oBEER TIL that Silent Hill was based off a real town, Centralia, which still has a toxic coal mine burning underneath them 60 years later.
nPdW TIL that the false-consensus effect or false-consensus bias is an attributional type of cognitive bias whereby people tend to overestimate the extent to which their opinions, beliefs, preferences, values, and habits are normal and typical of those of others
wLxKM TIL that Brazil's southernmost point is at about 33.75 degrees south, far outside of the tropics and at a latitude similar to Atlanta, Islamabad, or Sydney.
4wOb TIL that an estimated 10% of Europeans are immune to HIV infection because they have an ancestor who survived bubonic plague (the “Black Death.”)