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TIL more than 50 percent of people get away with murder.

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km65 TIL The word “Meme” originates from famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book “The Selfish Gene”.
v1oDB TIL a professional security tester named Jayson E. Street, was once hired to attempt to compromise the computers and networks of a bank in Beirut. He succeeded in the compromise and found several exploits, but was soon shocked to discover he had just robbed/hacked the wrong bank
awMm0 TIL there are almost 40 saints associated with epilepsy and Saint valentine is one of them. One connection is that in German, Valentine is pronounced "fallentin" which is connected to one denomination of the illness (fallen), literally the falling sickness.
xWxw TIL that childhood trauma (like being emotionally neglected or losing a parent) increases the likelihood of the adult onset of chronic disease like cancer, heart disease, and mental illness along with being more likely to be violent, have their lives shortened by 20 years, be an alcoholic, and more.
KaQ6 TIL The reason many critics say the James Joyce novel Finnegan’s Wake is nearly “unreadable” and “incomprehensible” is because it’s an attempt to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams.