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TIL you’re nearly 300 times more likely to be a victim of homicide in new Orleans as you are in Hong Kong.

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7Gor TIL Cruise ships are legally allowed to discharge (and they do) - raw, untreated sewage once they are three miles from shore. A typical cruise ship can produce up to 30,000 gallons of sewage a day.
6mWJ TIL that when our brains are tired, they are capable of thinking more creatively than when they are not tired.
VM9n0 TIL The novel Finnegans Wake by James Joyce is so incomprehensible that no two plot summaries made have ever agreed with each other. Some have even said any attempt to work out the plot is impossible and a waste of time.
YpNvG TIL the Hindenburg disaster was only the fifth deadliest airship disaster of all time.
kOZVg TIL about monster study, a study so heinous that it was not even published and 7 of the orphan children participating in it got $1.2M as compensation for lifelong emotional and psychological scars.