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TIL that worldwide, 79% of homicide victims are men

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MeEvb TIL the new generation Toyota Supra doesn't have a dipstick and oil level must be checked electronically with the engine running
R7jyQ TIL that in south London in 1864, Thomas Webster Rammell built an atmospheric railway for passenger transportation, called Crystal Palace Pneumatic Railway, that went around 39.6 km/h (24.6 mph) through a 2.7x3m tunnel just by varying the air pressure in the tunnel before/behind the railway wagon.
XZbP TIL the Dalai Lama was on the CIA payroll ($180k/yr) from the late 1950’s to 1974.
9YxJm TIL of a 7 year old feral child found in Russia last 2008 who was called The Bird Boy because he lived with birds in a virtual aviary and could not speak, only chirp because his mother never talked to him and he would flap his arms when he was approached by people just like a bird.
P19ZV TIL that Douglas Kelley, psychologist who examined the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials, committed suicide in front of his family by taking potassium cyanide.