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TIL Lawyer, Salesperson and Police Officer are Among the Top 10 Jobs that Attract Psychopaths

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8d7Z TIL there is only one resident of Monowi, Nebraska. She’s the bartender, librarian, and Mayor of the town.
wLNBY TIL in 559 BC a chinese prisoner was sentenced to death by being flown off the top of a large tower attached to a kite. He survived the flight, and claimed the record of the highest jump survived by a person in the process. He was later starved to death in prison.
wLaRo TIL that the Empire State Building was constructed in less than 15 months for $24.7 million, 57% of its original budget.
OGAb6 TIL that Paul Ignatius, America's Secretary of the Navy and Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War is still alive at the age of 103
d8Q6j TIL Originally published in Pyongyang in 1988, “Friend” by Paek Nam-nyong became the first state-sanctioned novel written in North Korea for North Koreans ever made available to Anglophone readers in a translated 2020 edition