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TIL The Freakonomics guys showed legalized abortion has significantly contributed to a decline in crime, starting 18 years after Roe v Wade

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bG7Z TIL of Aki Ra, a former child soldier forced to lay landmines in Cambodia who now spends his time removing mines from around the country. He has personally removed as many as 50,000 mines and started by using only a knife, a hoe, a stick and a Leatherman.
j6w5R TIL one of the reasons LBJ didn’t pursue another presidential term 1969-1973 was because an actuarial committee (accurately) predicted he would die at age 64, when he would still be in office. He died 2 days after the 1973 inauguration.
OGyx6 TIL that before he played Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi played a W.H.O. Doctor (World War Z, 2013)
ek85 TIL of a terrorist strategy to avoid tracked emails is for one terrorist to compose an email, save it as a draft, while another terrorist logs into the same account to read and delete the draft.
KjEB TIL that in 1945 Japanese sailors once submerged a sub while 90 European prisoners including children were on deck, leaving them to be eaten by sharks.