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TIL More men are raped in America than women

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GEBg TIL there exists evidence of “highly suspicious” insider trading on two airlines in the days leading up to 9/11 that can be traced to an unnamed US-based institutional investor.
6XVw TIL that rich people in China hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences.
XEVe6 TIL Getty Images has repeatedly been caught selling the rights for photographs it doesn't own, including public domain images. In one incident they demanded money from a famous photographer for the use of one of her own pictures.
j6d0M TIL about the Egyptian god Bes, protector of good things and households, whose depiction differs from the other Egyptian gods in that he faces forward rather than a side profile.
WEL9 TIL that the Dutch word for fun is ‘lol’.