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TIL Murder rates of women in Turkey have gone up 1400% since the current ruling party, Justice and Development Party came into power.

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b6lB7 TIL Harry Mendell invented the Melodian, the digital sampling synthesizer that Stevie Wonder featured on several albums. Mendell also helped develop Unix, and went on to contribute to the fields of global risk management, stock options trading, and machine learning.
JYXk1 TIL about The Massacre of Black Wall Street.
d8YXB TIL In 1985, Carrey made an audacious decision: He wrote himself a $10-million check for “acting services rendered,” dated it 10 years in the future, and kept it in his wallet. Call it a coincidence, but in November 1995, Carrey found out he would be paid 10 million for “Dumb and Dumber”.
PgxO TIL that the Danes saved almost all Danish Jews during WW2
4XO0g TIL during WWI, due to concerns the public would reject their product, American sauerkraut makers relabeled it as "Liberty Cabbage".