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TIL 1,035 professional journalists have been killed in the past 15 years. Syria and Mexico are the deadliest countries for reporters.

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9YP7M TIL BBC World Service carried out a poll in 19 different nations. Only 4 nations believed the US was doing more good than harm in the world (US, Nigeria, Kenya, and India). All European nations had an overwhelming negative opinion of the US. The worst was Russia. Second was Spain.
11bW TIL in 1947 Steve McQueen joined the United States Marine Corps and his rebellious attitude caused him to be demoted 7 times to Private.
e0eW5 TIL more than 1 in 4 people wrongfully convicted but later exonerated by DNA evidence had made false confessions; researchers say they occur as a result of police using force, threat, exhaustion, hunger, lies, and intimidation during interrogations.
Y7MjB TIL The 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption is the largest atmospheric explosion recorded by modern instrumentation and the most powerful eruption since the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa
Eaw0 TIL that the K2, the world’s second tallest mountain, has no local name. It is so remote and inaccessible that very few local people knew of its existence, and thus why it retains its original surveying moniker given to it by British surveyors.