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TIL homicide levels in medieval England were at least 10 times what they are today.

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LkoBQ TIL the story of Isaac Newton watching an apple fall out of a tree often misses an important detail, it was a windy day. The wind blew the apple at an angle as it fell. This caused Newton to wonder if an object could fall at such an angle that it never hits the ground, aka an orbit.
4XKoJ TIL in 1918 World War 1 censors minimized early reports of the flu epidemic's death toll to maintain wartime morale. Newspapers in neutral Spain were free to report on the epidemic's effects, creating a false impression that Spain was the hardest hit, and giving rise to the name "Spanish flu".
loBar TIL that there was a second Titanic. The Titanic was one of 3 ships called the Olympic Cruisers. The reason why the actual Titanic was called 'unsinkable' was because its sister ship, the Olympic, had a years history of crashing into stuff and refusing to go down.
V1ap TIL a woman is raped in India every 20 minutes
4k1bo TIL that 4/20 was started by a group of High Schoolers in sunny San Rafael, California.