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TIL Americans Believe Violence is Worse than Ever; When in Reality U.S. Violence is Lower than Ever

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0w41p TIL that a town in Peru celebrates “Takanakuy” on Dec. 25 every year, where men and women settle grudges from the past year by calling each other out and having a fistfight.
QKbe TIL George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is in the public domain in Canada, South Africa, Argentina, Australia, and Oman
GGg4 TIL that after the frontman of Norwegian metal band committed suicide, his bandmate made necklaces out of pieces of his skull and gave them out to musicians he deemed worthy. He also took a picture of the scene, and it was later used as the cover of their next album.
woOOP TIL All 27 of Uranus moons are named after William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope characters.
X0Zrk TIL “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” is a famous line from Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address. Roosevelt said this in his speech to help Americans regain faith in themselves during the Great Depression.