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TIL: Aggression/aggressive behavior is stable over time, meaning if someone is aggressive at 5 years old they will be aggressive at 15 years old, 25 years old, 40 years old etc (without intervention)

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bZdZ TIL a man broke out of prison by mailing himself in a crate and evaded capture hours later by convincing the police he was a jogger. He then traveled from one side of Canada and the States to the other before being caught.
VBEPG TIL that the author of the medieval poem, "Gawain and the Green Knight," alongside other poems, is unknown to history. Despite his poems being some of the most famous from the medieval period, his identity is lost.
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