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TIL leaving lights on at night isn't actually proven to reduce crime.

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epKdD TIL In ancient Greece, men weren't allowed to become midwives because it was required by law one had to have given birth themselves to qualify as one.
P1NLn TIL a 2019 study documented how the percentage of heterosexual married couples who met online rose from only 2% in 1998 to 20% in 2008 and then to nearly 50% in 2017, which made it the dominant form of initial contact for couples who marry.
awDAJ TIL Robert Downey Jr's father exposed him to drugs when he was six years old and he got addicted to them by the age of eight.
E1kOW TIL Teddy Roosevelt traveled over 300 miles to arrest three boat thieves in the Dakota territory, forcing them to march back for trial instead of hanging them. He even recreated the capture for a photo before turning them in
8V4b TIL A man named Dan Goodwin climbed the north World Trade Center tower in 1983 to call attention to the inability to rescue trapped occupants from the upper levels of skyscrapers.