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TIL that US started a major effort to count arrest-related deaths between 2003-2011 employing a specialized team of statisticians with US Bureau of Justice Statistics. The program had to be terminated due to poor participation from the states and lack of funding.

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Xo0Q TIL that there is a small town in Venezuela, founded by German immigrants in 1843, that has maintained its authentic origin culture, including architecture, cuisine, and language, so much that it is known as ‘The Germany of the Caribbean’
NRJM TIL Russian President Boris Yeltsin’s first words to the U.S. President upon meeting in 1995 were, “Do you think O.J. did it?”
p8pmb TIL there are people alive that do not have a heartbeat. A Texas heart surgeon (and amateur magician) invented a fake heart that continuously pushes blood through the heart instead of pumping it.
BrOKr TIL the sinner side of Mahatma Gandhi. I'm losing faith in humanity each day.
rRMp1 TIL in 1638 Bishop John Wilkins – an English clergyman, naturalist, and member of The Royal Society – wrote A Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet, in which he predicted a human colony on the Moon.