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TIL that “stranger danger” is a myth: Children are twice as likely to be killed by a relative and 20x more likely to be killed by their parents than at the hands of a stranger.

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PQdg TIL Dua Khalil’s body was exhumed after she was stoned to death in an honor killing and sent to a forensic lab “so that tests could be performed to see whether she had died a virgin”.
m1JNv TIL that there are only 94 US Marshals. It’s the 3,959 deputy marshals (and investigators) that makes up the core of the service.
69owl Today I learned that during the Paria delta p incident that did happen on February 2022, the five commercial divers were sucked into the 30’’ pipeline at a mean velocity of about 3,3 m/s (10.8 ft/s) and stopped sliding when they were at about 200 m (656 ft) from the riser elbow.
y7Bp TIL that Robert Smith, frontman of the band The Cure, famous for singing songs about love, heartbreak and breakups, has been with the same woman since they were 14 years old
bkVp TIL The opposite phenomenon of a déjà vu exists and is called jamais vu. It could be described as a person who does not recognise a word or, a person or place, despite rationally knowing that its known already.