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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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nePpY TIL American President Franklin D. Roosevelt (aka FDR) became the first and only President to serve four terms.
OoXYR TIL about the Crooked Forest (Krzywy Las) in Poland, a forest of pine trees that bend sharply to the North before returning upright after 3ft of growth, thus resembling fish hooks. No exact reason has been found for their shape as yet.
PYVDG TIL that u means you in text (who knew??!)
KO7o6 TIL in 1900, a young Chicago arts student took part in a golf tournament while visiting Paris, recording the best score. This “tournament” turned out to be the Olympics, and she died never knowing she was an Olympic champion, America’s first female Olympic champion no less.
Merpm TIL August von Mackensen was a World War I Field Marshal who lived from 1849 to late 1945, which means he lived through the Kingdom of Prussia, North German Confederation, German Empire, Weimar Republic, Third Reich and the Allied Occupation of Germany.