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TIL the meme “sex offenders have an 80% re-offense rate” is bunk, despite being cited by the Supreme Court multiple times. The actual rate is closer to 2%.

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e0ejb TIL that American singer Kesha got a near-perfect score on her SATs and was accepted to Barnard College at Columbia University, but instead chose to drop out before graduation to pursue her music career.
rLOe TIL that the first public school in the United States is still open. The Boston Latin School was founded over 380 years ago; famous alumni include Sam Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Hancock, and Leonard Bernstein.
N6MJ TIL When Jimmy Carter was a young Nuclear officer in the US Navy, they sent him to help a partial meltdown in a Canadian nuclear reactor. They built an exact copy of the reactor to train with, then lowered him into the still extremely radioactive reactor to take it apart one piece at a time.
VBAQ8 TIL The International Ice Patrol was founded in 1914 in response to the Titanic sinking to report the movements of icebergs in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. It stills exists to this day.
gmy9 TIL that in the UK, restaurants MUST supply free tap water if they serve alcohol.