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

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oRY8K TIL Zak Brown, the current CEO of McLaren F1 racing, won $3,050 on Wheel of Fortune in 1984 as a teenager and spent it all on a go-kart.
NWKe TIL In 2005 Benedict Cumberbatch was abducted and held at gunpoint by armed men in South Africa. After being let go he was eventually rescued by a stranger. He commented: “It taught me that you come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life less ordinary.”
awn0A TIL that due to shortages penicillin was re-extracted from patients’ urine during World War II
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