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TIL that half of the top ten most violent cities, in all of America, are in fact small towns.

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aw6Jb TIL that so many concepts in mathematics are named after "Bernoulli" because multiple members of this family contributed to the field over a hundred-year period
d8yR9 TIL that Andrew McAulay, an Australian mountaineer and sea kayaker, disappeared at sea while attempting to kayak 1600 km (994 mi) across the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand in February 2007.His body was never found.
eaR4 TIL that the infinity symbol is conjectured to be a variant form of a Roman numeral for 1000, CIƆ or sometimes CƆ, since Romans hyperbolically used 1000 to represent very large numbers.
WLl9 TIL that PC is the gaming platform of choice in China…because consoles have been banned since early 2000s
ADRld TIL the first 1000 numbers do not have the letter A in them and are called Aban Numbers.