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TIL there was only 1 victim of credit card fraud in Canada 2016. They lost $214.

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lXxA TIL; The vast majority (92%) of sexual abuse in juvenile detention facilities is perpetrated by women against boys.
yPNV TIL that gargoyles are used as waterspouts and grotesques are decorative.
D16Be TIL in 1381 over 70,000 peasants from across England revolted against their lords, led by a farmer named Wat Tyler the 'Peasant Army' marched into London, sacking parts of the city and killing any wealthy elites they found
mBBo TIL “scrub” was used as an insult meaning a “mean, insignificant fellow” as far as the 1580s.
b8Ya TIL that during WWI, the United States attempted to change words that had German origins. Sauerkraut came to be called “liberty cabbage”, German measles became “liberty measles”, hamburgers became “liberty sandwiches”.