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TIL 40% of Americans never moved away from the town they were born in.

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94WX TIL Despite public perceptions, the odds of becoming the victim of a violent crime in the US today are lower than they were in the so-called “Golden Age” of the 1950s.
gMaQW TIL about the Ebionite Christianity, a very old old belief (dates back to 180 CE) that Jesus was a human prophet who was born normally and had brothers, it was deemed heretical in Nicaea Council
69Qam TIL the British Antarctic Territory has its own laws, courts (including a Supreme Court), and police. There are currently 28 Orders and Ordinances; anything not covered by them is governed by English law.
GY1G7 TIL that the content delivery network CloudFlare uses a wall of 100 lava lamps as a way to generate entropy for a random number generator
7rRBx TIL Maggie Smith (Professor McGonagall) battled cancer while filming the last Harry Potter movie because she didn’t want to disappoint fans