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TIL that bones too get bigger with exercise, not just muscle

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wYvY TIL that the rape conviction rate is 58%, higher than the average for crimes. The myth that it’s hard to get a rapist convicted, which keeps some assaults from being reported, is absolutely false.
0wgy1 TIL the CIA planned a false flag attack to justify war with Cuba but was rejected by JFK.
awkaM TIL in 1896 a temporary, one-day city was named in Texas called Crush, where two locomotives were to be smashed head-on for purposes of spectacle. It was, for a few hours, the 2nd largest city in TX with 40k attendees. The collision caused engine boilers to explode, resulting in death and injuries.
M7b0W TIL that in 1863, when Harriet Tubman was under the command of Union Colonel James Montgomery, she became the first woman to lead a major military operation in the United States when she and 150 African American Union soldiers rescued more than 700 slaves in the Combahee Ferry Raid in the Civil War.
Xoor TIL that a four-year-old boy named Roger Lausier was saved by a woman named Alice Blaise; nine years later, Roger saved Alice’s husband from drowning at the same beach.