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TIL The FBI’s Indian Country program includes over 140 special agents and 40 victim specialists in 36 field offices. Indeed, 33% of all FBI victim specialists and 50% of all FBI child and adolescent forensic interviewers work directly with victims and families on more than 200 Indian reservations.

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l8oB TIL Households earning under $13,000 per year spend about 9 percent of their income on lottery tickets
9KXQ TIL: In Wales in 1950 a man was wrongfully executed for the murder of his wife and daughter. It is the reason capital punishment is outlawed in the UK today
QJN8a TIL that most Walmart shops allow anyone to use their parking lots at night for free
XEW66 TIL when his childless emperor cousin died, Zhu Houcong had to be adopted by his dead uncle to become the Jiajing Emperor. He refused to honor his uncle like a parent even though it was required. Instead, he made his dead dad an emperor to bypass this rule and to stay loyal to his birth parents.
MeQlW TIL Charlie from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was actually supposed to be black. According to Roald Dahl's wife, he changed it because his agent pressured him that a black protagonist might not appeal to potential buyers.