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TIL roughly 20% of suspected pedophiles in the UK are female.

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Z8kv4 TIL that skateboarding was banned in Norway from 1977 to 1989
gMY99 TIL that Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős worked on mathematics for up to 20 hours a day and at the end of his life had output a mathematical yield of roughly 1,500 papers, an order of magnitude higher than his most prolific and famous colleagues. Of these roughly 1,500 papers 507 were co-written.
aBXJ TIL that a law student filed a lawsuit against an attorney that made a public offer in Dateline giving 1M$ to anyone that could make in less than 30 minutes the distance between Jackson Airport and a hotel where the murders of 4 people happened. The student did it in 19 minutes.
4knpb TIL that while filming The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger went into a LA restaurant in battle-damaged Terminator makeup. He asked for a table in character and since no one knew who the Terminator was yet, the host and everyone in the restaurant started freaking out, screaming, and quickly left
j69Vp TIL a small group of defense witnesses regularly testify against mainstream medical opinion in shaken baby cases over whether infants can be fatally injured through shaking alone