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TIL Overall crime in NYC is down 80% since 1990

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P1WXJ TIL that the first goggles specifically for swimming were designed by an Irish priest called Michael O'Flanagan who was also associated with the Irish independent movement and Spanish republicanism during it's civil war.
gMXjL TIL that sci-fi author Phillip K. Dick was once so poor he ate dog food to survive. He would go on to have an outstanding career and write a novel that formed the basis for the movie Blade Runner.
epOZL TIL that in 1938, a 23 year-old Frank Sinatra was arrested in New Jersey on charges of "Seduction" and "Adultery".
GAvXj TIL that Boeing's spacecraft are as good as their planes
J17Jj TIL that after aborting their attempt to reach the North Pole. Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen would spend over a year stranded on Franz Josef Land before being rescued by Frederick George Jackson. A man Nansen had rejected from joining his North Pole expedition due to not being Norwegian.