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TIL: The majority of child abuse perpetrators are women.

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16Rg4 TIL about Dr. Samuel Mudd Sr., an American physician who rendered aid to John Wilkes Booth after President Lincoln's assassination and then covered up Booth's location when questioned by authorities. Mudd was convicted of conspiring to assassinate the president but avoided execution by one vote.
LkXYp TIL that using horizontal push bars instead of regular door knobs/handles is too prevent a crowd from smashing into a door and preventing its ability to open. Apparently it's called panic hardware
OGo1 TIL the the Guardian does not have the rights to broadcast the Olympics, so they recreate it, brick by brick, with legos.
9wARr TIL of Marcus McDilda - a P-51 Mustang pilot shot down over Japan two days after the first atomic bombing. Tortured by the Japanese to learn U.S. atomic bomb capabilities, he told his captors the U.S. had 100 atomic bombs that would be dropped on Tokyo and Kyoto within "the next few days."
YP8d TIL September 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day. On this day, Krispy Kreme gives their customers a free donut to whoever talks like a pirate and a dozen free donuts to whoever wears a pirate outfit.