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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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bpWj TIL the most powerful gangs in the United States have a presence in the US military. Gangster Disciples, Crips, Bloods, 18th Street, Nortenos, Black Disciples, Surenos, Latin Kings, Vice Lords, African Nations, Aryan Nations, Aryan Brotherhood and Ku Klux Klan graffiti has been documented in Iraq.

1Z0r TIL at least 310 schools in the U.S. are receiving tens of millions of dollars in public funding through school voucher programs to teach creationism.

0w0vv TIL there is a green card lottery, to win residency for the United States of America.

JYGP4 TIL - "Philanthropist" Robert F. Smith was involved in the largest tax evasion case in US history. He "willfully failed to report" over $200 million in income and he signed a nonprosecution agreement. He paid a fine of $139 million and cooperated with investigators.

gQdb TIL that two days before Chuck Yeager’s historic first flight to break the sound barrier, he fell off a horse and broke two ribs. He did not tell anyone, apart from his wife, and his friend Jack Ridley, who made him a device to close the X-1’s hatch out of a broom handle.