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TIL a CDC study claims more men are victims of partner abuse than women

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NX7QQ TIL Manuela Giersberg, a 27-year-old nurse, who suffocated 9 women aged between 78 and 93 years with cushions between 2003 and 2005
V1Jp TIL that The City of London is surrounded by the “Ring of Steel” - described as a “surveillance cordon” with almost half a million surveillance cameras. The roads entering the City are narrowed to force drivers to slow down and be recorded by the cameras.
W7OMo TIL that Dan Spitz, lead guitarist for Anthrax who played on Persistence of Time featuring "Time" and their cover of "Got The Time," left Anthrax to become a watchmaker
v1M6B TIL of William Burke, a Scottish murderer who would sell corpses for a profit to medical researchers. After he was hanged for his crimes, scientists dissected him, wrote with his blood, and bound a book with his skin.
DQONr TIL of 'Sokushinbutsu', ascetic Japanese buddhist monks who practiced self-mummification; they would prepare for death by eating a diet rich in pine needles and resin, paired with severe dehydration, until they 'hardened' in place.