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TIL approximately 4% of the US population is arrested every year.

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loGQA TIL about Jose Castellanos Contreras, a Salvodoran army colonel and diplomat, who, while working as El Salvador's Consul General for Geneva during WWII, helped save up to 40,000 Jews and Central Europeans from the Nazis by secretly issuing thousands of "certificates of Salvadoran citizenship"
GYeY7 TIL over 1.3 million Indian soldiers fought for the British in WW1
woKDJ TIL the massive decimation of native populations in the Americas in the 1500s led to vast areas of cultivated land reverting to wilderness. This reforestation in turn contributed to a period of global cooling known as the "Little Ice Age"
4kNOg TIL that vomitoriums in ancient Rome were the exits to stadiums and theaters which spewed crowds into the streets. They had nothing to do with purging to eat more.
xapD TIL that domestic violence is perpetrated by the woman as much as the man and that women are more likely to use a weapon and kill male children.