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TIL Alaska is “America’s Rape Capital,” where 37% of women report being sexually assaulted at least once in their lives.

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E1pB7 TIL "yé-yé" was a music genre which emerged in the 1960s. Its name was derived from the English "yeah! yeah!", popularised by beat and rock and roll bands such as the Beatles.
grXm9 TIL that the Kurdish people are the largest ethnic group (35-45 million!) without a homeland of their own. Britain and France had planned to give the Kurds their own independent state until the founder of the Republic of Turkey forced them to renegotiate.
mpYO TIL… Night Pearls are a rare form of Fluorite that is naturally luminescent, almost as tough as diamonds, and feature prominently in Chinese legends.
7rJlX TIL: China is running multiple AI experiments which include grading students as focused or distracted based on their facial recognition data without students' consent.
n7Xo TIL A woman survived a bear mauling by hiking back to her car and driving 4 miles for help, even though her face was partially ripped off and an eyeball was hanging out of its socket.