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TIL that worldwide, 79% of homicide victims are men

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GAR5g TIL Crown shyness is a phenomenon in which the trees do not touch each other. The phenomenon is most prevalent among trees of the same species, but also occurs between trees of different species.
oBMjW TIL that NATO made wildly false claims about losses they had inflicted on their adversaries in the Kosovo War, with the real numbers of enemy vehicles destroyed differing from official figures by as much as "3 tanks, not 120; 18 armored personnel carriers, not 220; 20 artillery pieces, not 450"
dmyr TIL a script was written for Jurassic Park 4 that involved genetically altered dinosaurs being bred for war and trained to carry weapons for battle.
EgdEW TIL about the popular myth of the dinosaur "butt brain" or "hind brain", a second brain located near the hips that was supposed to control the movement of the legs and tail
kOpdg TIL Morocco was a haven for gay tourists during the 1950s