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TIL According to the FBI - Crime Among African-American Youth Is At Its Lowest Point in History and Continues to Drop.

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M7OnA TIL about ponytail headaches, a type of extracranial headache arising from pericranial muscle fascia and tendon traction. Essentially, if your hair is tied too tighly, you get a nasty headache.
78yyZ TIL Willem Dafoe played a fictionalized version of German actor Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), produced by Nicolas Cage, earning an Oscar nomination for his role. Schreck originally portrayed Count Orlok in the 1922 Nosferatu. Dafoe later starred in the 2024 remake of Nosferatu.
8oKZ TIL that the children of identical twins test genetically as half-siblings instead of first cousins
wKD7 TIL After 60 odd years, North and South Korea is split linguistically. “I’m fine thanks” in North Korean means “Mind your own Business” in the South.
rRPAy TIL that the term "gaslighting" comes from a 1938 British play called "Gas Light", which follows a woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is going insane.