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TIL Studies show that the risk of dying from an injury is far less in the city than in the country

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9wZpX TIL ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Star Mariska Hargitay (Olivia Benson) is the longest-running actor in a live-action primetime series. It’s a record that Hargitay continues to add to each year, as “Law & Order: SVU” surpasses the heights of its parent show “Law & Order.”
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5njP TIL in the 1960’s the USA planned to test deadly nerve gas (VX and Sarin) on 200 Australian soldiers by bombing a chosen site in a Queensland forest. The plan was eventually vetoed by Aus PM.