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TIL a child porn sting found 5,200 Pentagon employees suspected of accessing kiddie porn. Only a handful were prosecuted.

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W77Qd TIL that during the 1896 Olympics, nobody knew how to throw a discus because it was the first international discus competition ever. Greek competitors tried to imitate Myron's ancient greek discobolus statue, but the imitation was not required.
98ZB TIL That in 2011 in the US there were 1694 murders using knives, 496 murders with blunt object, 726 using bare hands and feet, and just 323 murders using rifles (including the ‘assault’ variety)
O4yR TIL that the Crane Fly, also known as Mosquito Hawks, don’t actually eat mosquitoes despite popular belief.
1a75d TIL that the Dutch East India Company was valued at $7.9 trillion at its peak. That's more than the top 20 modern companies combined
9YZe6 TIL on 18 August 1913, in Monte Carlo Casino, 26 roulette spins in a row landed on black. The odds of such an occurrence are 1 in 66.6 million. Many gamblers lost millions of francs as they continually (and incorrectly) reasoned that red was due to come up next.