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TIL Violent, often fatal, attacks on homeless Americans outnumber all other categories of hate crimes combined.

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0A1y TIL out of 2.7 million traffic accidents in the U.S. recorded in 25 states over the course of a year, only 1.6 percent were caused by drivers who exceeded the posted speed limit.
O666 TIL there exists the idea, that the growing Hispanic population in the American Southwest will allow Mexico to regain these territories, called the Reconquista.
7JKP TIL that the idiom “the cat’s out of the bag” is derived from a practice by some merchants who sold piglets in bags. If the buyer was distracted, the merchant would quickly switch the piglet w/ a cat. The buyer wouldn’t realize until they got home and let the cat, and not a piglet, out of the bag.
7rGOb TIL that more than half of the wildfire firefighters in California are inmates being paid less than $2 an hour
E1JQp TIL That Genghis Khan's Tomb Has Never Been Found, Because He Chose To Be Buried In Secret. That Doesn't Mean That People Have Given Up Though. The Latest Idea Is To Find It From Space.