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TIL Male Victims of Domestic Violence who call law enforcement for help are statistically more likely to be arrested themselves than their female partner

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O9D1 TIL When Queen Elizabeth visited the Game Of Thrones set she refused to sit on the Iron Throne.
kvPB TIL a man was found innocent of rape and false imprisonment after spending 18 years in jail due to DNA evidence. 2 years after his release, he raped and murdered a woman.
agKZ TIL that an English POW in WWI was granted permission to visit his dying mother and voluntarily returned a week later.
b9pAp TIL When Harry Wilson 18 months old, his proud Grandfather bet £50 that he would on day represent Wales in football and was quoted 2500/1 at his local bookmaker. 16 years later he became the youngest ever Wales debutant , netting his grandfather £125,000
9Yag7 TIL to defend a South African city under siege in 1899, a mining engineer from Detroit built a 155' high watchtower with search lights and telephones, a water supply system, a bulk refrigeration plant, two armored trains, artillery shells, a cannon, and also the tools needed to build the cannon