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Today I learned that there exists a formal, research-based protocol for assessing the degree of danger a woman faces of being murdered by her male spouse/boyfriend/partner/ex

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via reddit.com

Gno5 TIL that the second rainbow in a double rainbow is always inverted. (amazed I never saw this before.)
WkjKL TIL a necropsy performed after the death of Secretariat in 1989 showed the thoroughbred had a heart almost twice the size of average racehorses, a factor that contributed to its incredible power and stamina
Qn69 TIL that two days before Hurricane Katrina struck, two Ohio tourists were arrested in New Orleans on public drunkenness charges. In the chaotic aftermath of the storm, they were jailed for more than a month in the city’s flooded jail
r0Yy TIL In 2005, a fortune cookie company correctly foretold lottery numbers, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation.
neg7W TIL according to the most recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, the average age of first marriage for women in 2017 was 27.4 years and for men it was 29.5 years. In 1990, the average age of marriage for women was 24; in 1980 it was 22; and back in the 1950s, it was only 20.