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TIL of a correlation between legalized abortion and crime rates. In the aftermath of Roe vs Wade, Abortion was legalized in the US causing crime rates to go down.

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loolr TIL that there is a town in Spain, Corìa del Rio, where there are still descendants of the first Japanese embassy in Europe sent by Date Masamune that decided to remain there because of Christian persecutions in Japan. Their surname is Japón.
ExMd TIL That people tend to overestimate their ability to effectively relay emotions over email
oeOo TIL Axl Rose’s original concept for the Sweet Child o’ Mine music video was to depict a drug trafficker carrying her child into a foreign country. It would then be revealed the child was dead and full of heroin.
5YWAp TIL about Indian Head Rock...an 8-ton boulder that was taken from a river between Ohio & Kentucky that led to a legal fight between the two states.
5Jak TIL Capitol One paid Alec Baldwin $15 million over nearly five years. After taxes and accounting fees, he will have given all of it, $14.125 million, to charity.