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TIL that in 2013, inmates in Venezuela opened a nightclub inside their prison that included strippers.

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B8ey TIL The Little Shop of Horrors was reportedly the fastest film ever made. It was written in a single night, rehearsed in three days, and shot in two days and one night, all to finish by New Year’s 1960 when a new industry practice started to pay actors residual fees
MeJQK TIL a UK study found that North American gray squirrels are smarter than UK red squirrels at tasks to get hazelnuts. Both gray & red equally opened a clear flap to get a nut. But in a multi-step task including operating a lever to get a nut, 91% of gray squirrels solved it vs 62% of red squirrels.
lplK TIL: Women are the majority of human traffickers in almost a third of the 155 nations the U.N. surveyed. They accounted for more than 60% of the human trafficking convictions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
OogWX TIL that Ancient Rome had no concept of a limited-liability corporation, so entrepreneurs got around it by appointing a slave as the CEO. A master was not legally liable for a slave's debts, so this allowed the owner to control the company while avoiding personal liability in case of bankruptcy.
VBLnZ TIL that Laura Dern and Diane Ladd, daughter and mother in real life, were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for the film Rambling Rose, making them the first mother-daughter duo to be nominated for Academy Awards for the same film or in the same year.