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1955

TIL having a gun in your house no matter the way it is stored does not decrease your chance of homicide. Instead it increases the chances of homicide by 300% and suicide by 500%.

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D1gED TIL: About “Garden Path Sentences”, a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader’s most likely interpretation will be incorrect; the reader is lured into a parse that turns out to be a dead end or yields a clearly unintended meaning. Like “The old man the boat”
QNEgM TIL: That following the capture of 81 German soldiers as prisoners of war, Germans soldiers attempted/largely succeeded in massacring an entire village. Only 13 out of nearly 700 men survived. The women survived thanks to 1 sympathetic soldier who freed them.
plRe TIL that in 1898 a novella was published about a fictional ocean liner called “Titan”, which sank in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. In the novel there were not enough lifeboats for passengers, and it also sank in April, as the real Titanic did 14 years later.
4kMka TIL that the most expensive video game to develop is Genshin Impact with a total budget of 700 million dollars. 100 million went to the initial costs, and 200 million for the annual ongoing development as of 2024.
a8wNA TIL of the Experimental Lakes Area. A research station of 58 formerly pristine freshwater lakes in Canada purposely polluted with everything from fertilizers to anti-depressants to study the effects on aquatic life. It is the only such site in the world.