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As an executioner, I often ask prisoners for their last requests.

by cringeyjokesman July 6, 2022, 10:02 am

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TIL Romanian prisoners would receive reduced sentences if they wrote a book.

by whatilearned July 1, 2022, 9:09 am

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What are the Prose and Cons of teaching prisoners creative writing?

by QuestionGuy June 27, 2022, 11:34 pm

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TIL about Khuk Khi Kai, a jail in Thailand which was designed so that prisoners were subjected to a regular shower of chicken poop

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 9:25 am

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Why are prisoners so bad at socializing?

by cringeyjokesman June 15, 2022, 6:52 pm

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TIL that the British had a POW camp called Trent park during WWII. They would take axis prisoners of war and let them live in luxury, while secretly bugging the house. The program gave the allies lots of intel, such as the location of a V2 rocket facility.

by whatilearned June 13, 2022, 10:30 pm

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TIL that the last ever prisoners to be held inside the Tower Of London prison were the Kray Twins in 1952

by whatilearned June 9, 2022, 12:36 pm

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TIL about the Lady Juliana (1777 ship), a ship chartered to transport a load of all-female prisoners to Australia, which quickly developed a reputation as a floating brothel: “when we were fairly out to sea, every man on board took a wife from among the convicts, they nothing loath.”

by whatilearned June 7, 2022, 5:36 pm

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TIL about Joe Kieyoomia, a Navajo soldier who survived both the Bataan Death March and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. He was tortured more than other prisoners because he was mistaken for being a Japanese American traitor. After the war he returned home to New Mexico and lived to 77.

by whatilearned May 19, 2022, 5:21 am

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TIL Pozole was made from the human meat of prisoners whose hearts had been ripped out in ritual sacrifice.

by whatilearned May 13, 2022, 7:38 pm

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TIL to study health effects of coffee, King Gustav III of Sweden forced identical twin prisoners to drink 3 pots of either coffee or tea a day for life. The tea-drinking twin died before the coffee-drinking twin. The king and attending doctors died before both.

by whatilearned May 11, 2022, 1:24 am

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TIL A Prisoner’s Daughter Kept Her Starving Father Alive By Breastfeeding Him During Visits

by whatilearned April 27, 2022, 10:37 pm

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