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Today I learned that helping disadvantaged children does more to reduce homicide rates than being tough on crime.

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rN9p1 TIL about the Suffragette bombing and arson campaign
PraE TIL that it is impossible for a centipede to have 100 legs. They have one pair of legs per body segment, but always an odd number of body segments, allowing for 98 and 102 legs, but not 100.
WkY6Y TIL Usain Bolt demands that his ad shoots be done in Jamaica to bring money to his country
N7PbQ TIL of Maudie Hopkins, the last widow of a Civil War veteran, she died at 93 in 2008. At 19 years old, she married 86-year-old William M. Cantrell on February 2nd, 1934.
G9RN TIL that the first “emergency” aboard Apollo 13 was when astronaut John Swigert radioed Huston because he had forgotten to file his income taxes. Flight Director Glynn Lunney assured that Americans out of the country got a 60-day extension on filing.