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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.

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6E1vZ TIL in 1972 eight people at a party snorted what they thought was cocaine, but was actually pure LSD, averaging about 50,000 doses per person. All but one became comatose, but made full recoveries in the hospital 12 hours later, with no apparent physical or psychological after effects.
M7ekW TIL under German law, self-driving cars must be programmed to avoid human death at all cost. This means the car is allowed to destroy property, accelerate beyond legal speeds, and hit animals to avoid hitting a human.
lXDB TIL on August 5, 1944, one of the biggest jail-breaks in history involved hundreds of Japanese POWs attempting to escape an Australian prisoner camp. The Japanese considered the Australians weak because they treated the prisoners well. 234 of the Japanese were killed and another 108 wounded.
WkP18 TIL that China poured more concrete in the 3 years after 2010 than the US did in the entire 20th century.
Xw58 TIL out of the 92 Navy SEALS that died since 2002, 21 were killed during training (many by parachute accidents)