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TIL in the United States, murder rates are higher in more religious states and lower in less religious states.

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ynJp TIL: Male genital mutilation in Africa causes an unknown number of yearly deaths along with numerous penile amputations. “Countless numbers of participants are left with permanent scarring or deformity…penises have become so infected and gangrenous they literally drop off.”
9Y5WQ TIL when Consumer Reports tested a Renault 12 in 1972, the car had 34 defects, including a connecting rod breaking through the engine block, loosened flywheel bolts and the windshield wiper motor burning. The best car in the comparison, Toyota Corolla, had only 9 defects.
QN70p TIL that astronauts from the Apollo missions reported that lunar dust smells similar to spent gunpowder after they returned from spacewalks and removed their helmets inside the module.
V5ND TIL that C in CCleaner stand for crap
LvW9 TIL Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1995 was found on Pennsylvania Avenue, drunk, in his underwear and trying to hail a cab in order to find pizza