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TIL That, in 1994, a man in Oklahoma was sentenced to 2,200 years in jail. He appealed for a pretrial and was given an additional 9,000 years upon his re-conviction.

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nWpaY TIL about The Secret a treasure hunt created by Byron Preiss. The hunt involves a search for twelve treasure boxes, the clues to which were provided in a book written by Preiss in 1982, also called The Secret. These boxes were buried at secret locations in cities across the United States and Canada
x6pgB TIL The White Helmets in Syria is an organization dedicated to providing free aid to civilians during the war.
gvEX TIL that beer bottles are brown in order to protect the beer from UV rays, which causes it to spoil. However, green and clear glass offers virtually no protection.
XExmr TIL that all-time great director Andrei Tarkovsky dismissed colour film as a gimmick, saying that in everyday life one does not consciously notice colours most of the time, and that films in colour are like moving paintings or photographs, which are too beautiful to be a realistic depiction of life
rRKR0 TIL that 99% of Jewish children in Poland died in the Holocaust. Only 5,000 were left out of a pre-war population of 1 million.