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TIL that if Louisiana was its own country, it would have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

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oBJLW TIL about Vic Tandy, an engineer who established a connection between supposed paranormal activity and infrasound frequency (~19Hz), which is below the range of human hearing and also roughly the resonant frequency of our eyeballs, causing some people to 'see' things that aren't there.
b66YE TIL when a female porcupine is ready to mate she climbs a tree and vocalizes loudly like a cat. This mating call attracts the males, which then fight brutally with each other. It's not unusual to see a winning, mating male with a hundred or so quills of rival males' tails stuck in his face.
xVmDb TIL that since 2009, more people moved to Mexico from the US than moved to the US from Mexico.