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TIL You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist

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b9on0 TIL That communist leader Vladimir Lennin spoke English with a strong Irish accent.
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jNlEv TIL that there is an alive 'castrato'. Javier Medina was chemically castrated due to leukemia at the age of 8 years, later in life he began his musical formation in choirs becoming the first castrato the the world has heard in almost a century.
5VwMQ TIL The first Artificial Intelligence (AI) conference was held in 1956
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