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TIL that use of handguns in crime rose by 40% in the two years after they were banned in the UK

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x6E10 TIL the largest national park in the world is Northeast Greenland National Park, also the world’s northernmost national park.
JYWgQ TIL that the Empire State Building was constructed so rapidly (1 year and 45 days) that the steel arrived warm to the touch from Carnegie Pennsylvania.
gMrwW TIL: Flexible fridge magnets are magnetized in rows of N/S pairs, which you can mess or fix with strong magnets
mn7x TIL Millionaire Harris Rosen gave a Florida neighborhood free daycare and scholarships to all high school graduates. This raised the graduation rate from 25% to 100% and cut crime in half.
e0J6L TIL there is a raccoon problem in Japan, they were introduced as pets, but people kept releasing them.