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TIL that (according to polls) Americans believe violent crime is getting worse & worse; when really U.S. violent crime is at or near All-time lows

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5YP4R TIL: You can send a Valentine's Card to sick children at Cincinnati's Children's Hospital
EgJZd TIL that bones of fallen Waterloo battle' soldiers (and horses) may have been used to whiten brown sugar into refined white sugar for decades
nDjr TIL in the famous bath salt cannibalism case, no evidence of bath salts was ever found
YpMeW TIL Olympus Mons on Mars, the tallest known mountain in the solar system, is so large at its base that an observer on its peak wouldn’t know he was standing on a mountain because its slope would be obscured by the curvature of the planet itself.
mmDE TIL that the company that wrote and produced Rebecca Black’s Friday is co-owned by the lead singer of Nickelback