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TIL that incidents of domestic violence with families of police officers are 2-4 times more common than in rest of the population.

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OomO6 TIL it’s a myth that humans swallow an average of 8 spiders per year while they’re asleep. It was a made up by a columnist named Lisa Holst who wanted to show how quickly misinformation can spread.
epDJJ TIL that steel and concrete have almost identical thermal expansion, making reinforced concrete (and modern civilization's constructions) possible.
VBlV4 TIL there are no less than 33 instances of cities and towns named Athens in the world.
ZpvJp TIL when Fox refused to pay for Deadpool screenwriters Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick to be on set every day during filming, Ryan Reynolds paid with his own money to make sure they were there in order to keep the project on the right track & maintain the original creative team.
pJDA TIL that a 1997 poll found that Americans thought NASA represented approximately 20% of the federal budget. In reality, NASA represented 0.9% of the federal budget. The record high level for NASA funding was 4.4%.