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TIL “Turn the other cheek” actually means that you are demanding equality from an abuser…and not passively accepting assault.

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RlVw TIL That in developed countries suicide now takes more lives than war, murder, and natural disasters combined – and the suicide rate worldwide has jumped 60% since WWII, and has jumped 30% in the US in the last decade alone
Z8PyD TIL in the 1940s and 50s MIT scientists fed unsuspecting boys oatmeal laced with radioactive materials at a school for mentally disabled and abandoned boys
OoegR TIL there is a group of people who place a white rose at the 9/11 memorial on the person’s name who would be having a birthday that day.
NvpM TIL that K2, with a 25% death rate, is more dangerous to climb than Mt. Everest, where only about 3% of climbers are killed.
16Mor TIL that Stanley "Tookie" Williams, convicted murderer and founder of the LA Crips gang, became a children's author and 5x Nobel Peace Prize nominee while on Death Row. He was executed in 2005 after being denied clemency by California Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger.