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TIL that Venezuela was the first country in the world to abolish the death penalty for all crimes, doing so by Constitution in 1863.

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bBl4 TIL that 58% of Russians don’t know who built the Berlin Wall, 10% think Berlin residents built it themselves, 6% think Western powers built it, and 4% think it was a bilateral agreement between the Soviet Union and the West
7lgx TIL that 40% of domestic abuse victims in Britain are actually male, but have no way of refuge as police and society tend to ignore them and let their attackers free.
81JV TIL that researchers who study crime acknowledge that bedwetting is not linked with sociopathic behavior.
gYPW TIL that a bank robber covered his face with lemon juice because he believed it would make his face invisible to surveillance cameras. This led to a Cornell psychology study that showed unskilled people mistakenly assess their abilities to be much higher than they really are.
X0wx6 TIL to mark 10 years of North Korean-UK relations, 'Bend it like Beckham' was broadcast on state TV becoming the first-ever Western-made film to air on television in North Korea.