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TIL That the majority of Americans believe that violent crime rates are at an all time high, despite the fact that they have been steadily declining for decades

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gO09 TIL Pope Benedict XVI doesn’t know how to drive and never got a driver’s license. But he does have a helicopter pilot’s license and even likes to fly the papal helicopter.
awBnJ TIL Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted into the military for the Vietnam war for which he was arrested and stripped of his boxing titles. “You won't even stand up for me in America for my religious beliefs—and you want me to go somewhere and fight, but you won't even stand up for me here at home?“
dxeB TIL Henry Ford built a rubber factory and town in the Amazon in the 20’s to supply rubber for tires. Ultimately, he failed and abandoned the idea. The ruins remain there today.
7EbO TIL:In 2009 a Azerbaijan man revenge raped the man who raped his son
N7xpN TIL that some deaf people that develop Schizophrenia can have auditory hallucinations and ‘hear’ voices