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TIL that 47% of male victims of domestic abuse are threatened with arrest. 21% are arrested.

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JYYyB TIL that since, conveniently, the landing area for ski jumping happens to be around the same dimensions as a football pitch, local officials developing stadiums for the 2018 Olympics in South Korea built a stadium that can be used for both
4kVJa TIL 196 workers died during the construction of the 5-mile Hoosac railway Tunnel due to accidents
RGPj TIL that since 2015, same-sex marriage was completely legalised on the small Pacific island of Pitcairn (which is inhabited by a small settlement of 50 people all descended from the 1790 Bounty mutiny)… however, there are no known homosexuals or homosexual couples residing on the island.
bLX0 TIL When Pyongyang’s first golf course opened in 1994, Kim Jong-il was given the honour of playing the first round. He shot a 38-under-par round, which included 11 holes-in-one. His 17 bodyguards were put forward as witnesses to his remarkable feat.
aba0 TIL From 1934-1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt had the government finance the planting of 220 million trees to combat the dust bowl.