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TIL Most Americans Believe U.S. Violent Crime is Worsening, when Really Rates are Near All-time Lows

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Wk058 TIL that "Live Aid", the benefit concert held for the Ethiopian famine in 1985, (while well intended) actually gave ~£150 million to the Ethiopian Dictatorship. They used the money to mostly buy weapons from the Soviet Union and further fueled their civil war.
p8weO TIL that birds that habitually perch in trees hop, because it is not practicable to walk from twig to twig, while those that spend much of their time feeding on the ground walk.
nWZGY TIL Copenhagen has Scandinavia's busiest airport AND one of the shortest city-center-to-terminal commutes of any major capital at just 8 km (5 miles). 15 minutes by metro, less than half the time it takes to reach Heathrow, CDG, or JFK from their city centers.
ydkw TIL John Henry’s famous race against the steam drill really did happen in 1870. He was able to win because the machine kept getting hung up and lost time.
GArgj TIL that the US nun population is rapidly shrinking and aging and that the average sister is 80 years old and by some estimates fewer than 1,000 nuns will left in the United States by 2042.