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TIL of the fear of crime gender paradox, a term coined by criminologists to describe the fact that women are much more afraid of street crime than men, despite the fact that men are vastly more likely to be victims of said crime.

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6pK8 TIL That Brian Wilson did a cover of the Barenaked Ladies song ‘Brian Wilson’.
e0ZwL TIL Lê Đức Thọ won the Nobel Peace Prize with Henry Kissinger but declined it saying there was no actual peace in Vietnam. The war resumed four months after he was declared the winner.
YnlB TIL Wallabies can have substance abuse problems. In fact, certain stoned, opiate loving wallabies are a big problem for parts of Australia.
yQbZX TIL of Clarence Elkins, who was wrongly imprisoned for the murder of his mother-in-law and assault of his 6-year-old niece. His wife worked hard to exonerate him and found a likely suspect who was in the same jail as him. Clarence collected a cigarette he’d used. His DNA matched.
vPKgR TIL of a man in Iraq who hired an online agent to buy a lotto ticket for him in Oregon, and won 6.4 million.