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TIL that 75% of crimes in the U.S. are committed by high school dropouts.

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80NZ TIL in 2013 a chinese father hired gamers to ‘kill’ his son ingame repeatedly to stop his addiction to gaming.
REV6 TIL that Pope Benedict XVI enjoyed flying helicopters, had a helicopter’s pilot’s license, but he did not have a driver’s license.
6ElnY TIL that during the women’s gymnastics all-around final at the 2000 Olympics, the vaulting table was accidentally set 5 centimeters too low. Half of the gymnasts had vaulted before organizers fixed the error, and many of them had crashes.
w1L1 TIL: The sequel to the original “101 Dalmatians” book involved an alien dog coming to earth and inviting all the Earth dogs back to his home planet to avoid human nuclear war.
ZAKo TIL the Malaysian space agency convened a conference of 150 Islamic scientists to determine how a Muslim astronaut on the space station should pray facing Mecca