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TIL: The U.S.A. ranks 121st on the Global Peace Index (GPI) behind such peaceful countries as Rwanda, Vietnam, El Salvador, and Haiti.

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GY005 TIL Lee Marvin was not only devilishly handsome and a badass in the movies but also in real life. Marvin joined the illustrious US Marine Corps at age 18 and fought in WW2 at the battle of Saipan, being hit by machine gun fire and a snipers bullet as well.
4XjAw TIL Peter Falk's real wife appeared on Columbo more than any other actress.
EQBo TIL a high school teacher, inspired by the movie “Up”, was threatened to be fired after using a dog collar dubbed “the cone of shame” on bad students.
MoJ7 TIL As a kid, Michio Kaku got 400 pounds of transformer steel and 44 miles of copper wire, to create a 6 kilowatt, 10,000 gauss magnetic field on his high school football field. He created a particle accelerator to find antimatter.
VM1jp TIL Jeffery Dahmer was pulled over in 1978 on suspicion of DUI while trying to dispose of his first victim. A garbage bag containing the dismembered body was in plain view of the police officer. Dahmer talked his way out of trouble and was let go.