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TIL prostitutes in Chicago are more likely to have sex with a police officer than be arrested by one.

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x6rdw TIL that Michael Keaton only had 17 minutes of screen time even though the movie was called "Beetlejuice."
LQkgZ TIL that 2 British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre were given the "benefit of the clergy." A colonial law used to escape execution. After receiving it one was branded with either a T for theft or for example M for Murder, so that one could not receive it a second time.
ADXAB TIL that the Sun costantly produce a roar of around 290 decibels. If sound could travel in space, it would still be around 125db by the time it reaches Earth, around 13 years later: around the volume of a jackhammer
JYAOj TIL in 2015 Forbes named Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America based on a $9 billion valuation of her company. Yet within a year, following revelations of potential fraud about its claims, Forbes revised her net worth to zero dollars.
OaXe TIL that hired footsoldiers in the Los Zetas cartel were literally trained by the US military to the same standard of US infantry soldiers