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TIL homicide rates & battle deaths are way down since prehistoric times – and we now live in “The most peaceful time in our species’ existence”

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8MlK TIL that the Mongols’ military tactics were so fierce that they would catapult diseased corpses over city walls to infect the population and even rerouted rivers after a city had fallen so that it could never rise again
mxVER TIL Fire hydrants are colored differently because of different water pressures.
wL8do TIL there is a Jewish community in Belmonte, Portugal that survived in hiding for centuries. They opened their current synagogue in 1996.
xVoO0 TIL a New Zealand couple disappeared after $6M was accidentally credited in their bank account.
LkMgV TIL while crossing the street, Ben Carpenter's wheelchair was hit by the front of a semi, getting the handles lodged into its grill, then proceeding to take the man on a wild 50 mph highway ride.