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TIL that despite popular belief, violence now is much lower than previous decades/centuries.

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rRGk0 TIL that the first attempt to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand was a complete failure. The bomb bounced off the car, the assassin fled, swallowing a suicide pill then jumping into a nearby river. He could not even get that right, vomiting up the pill and landing in water that was barely ankle-deep.
R76V6 TIL that the 1994 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was between Mark Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's great-grandson, and William Weld, Theodore Roosevelt's great-grandson-in-law
a878o TIL Christopher Walken volunteered to be in Fatboy Slim's iconic "Weapon of Choice" music video
kJglg TIL that childhood adversity including parental neglect, domestic instability, and maltreatment is strongly associated with increased neuroticism along with reduced agreeableness, conscientiousness, and extraversion in adulthood. predictors of chronic cynicism and impaired social functioning