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TIL: People with severe mental illness are no more likely to engage in violent behavior than the general population, but are more likely to be the victims of violence themselves

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yVWVp TIL that the Mr. Mister song ‘Broken Wings’ has the same lyric ‘take these broken wings, and learn to fly’ as the Beatles song ‘Black Bird’. Apparently both groups were inspired by the same poet-philosopher Kahlil Gibran
N7vwJ TIL Bath Abbey church in England had up to an estimated 6,000 people buried under it which caused voids to form and put the church floors in danger of collapse. A church rep said "they just jammed them in and jammed them in — it would have been very unpleasant to put it mildly."
DQ94P TIL that Lee Harvey Oswald was Teddy Roosevelt's third cousin, whereas FDR was Teddy's fifth cousin.
Nl8e TIL Destroying a mailbox carries a fine up to 250,000 dollars and up to 3 years in jail
9YDvr TIL Atropine, the poison in deadly nightshade, and muscarine, the poison in certain poisonous mushrooms, counteract each other so one can be used to treat poisoning with the other