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TIL only 12.5% of US serial killers fit the profile most often typified in media today— an intelligent, white male in his 20s.

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E1nQ0 TIL Dennis Hastert, former Republican Speaker of the House from 1999-2007 became the highest ranking US politician to go to prison. He had molested an unconfirmed number of boys (at least 4) and was indicted and plead guilty on charges of silencing a victim with hush money. He served 12 months.
kkdg TIL there exists a cave so massive that it has its own weather system
n5QW TIL in South Korea, children under 17 are blocked from playing online games past midnight which is monitored by their KSSN (Korean Social Security Number).
DQ5xj TIL that there is a species of bison native to Europe. The European Bison is the largest land animal in Europe, is a national animal of Poland, and whose populations were driven to extinction in most of Europe and Asia in late antiquity.
8ayR4 TIL that the average Latino in the United States is nearly 20% Native American and over 6% African in ancestry, with some outlier groups like Guatemalans being overwhelmingly Indigenous or Dominicans, and other Caribbean Latinos, representing much higher rates of African genetics.