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TIL More people are bitten each year by New Yorkers than by sharks.

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M7JA TIL The assassination of Julius Caesar had the exact opposite of its intended effect. He was killed by Senators upset with him declaring himself dictator and eroding the Republic. But he was so popular his death caused rioting, Civil War, and the permanent installation of an Emperor.
x64M0 TIL the last officially reported lynching in the US was 1981, Michael Donald, and the last officially reported racially incited murder was 2020 of Ahmaud Arbery.
oXyL TIL a study found that narrow nostrils evolved in people from cold climates their noses had to warm the air before it hit their lungs.
LQjp0 TIL the Quarter Pounder was discontinued in McDonalds Japan in 2017
8WA4 TIL that rats who were trained to press a lever for food stopped pressing the lever once they saw that it also caused another rat to receive an electric shock