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TIL during the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, almost 67% of online abuse was found to come from North and Central America, with the main target being USA Players

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rN4m0 TIL That Hanns Scharff, One of the most succesful German Luftwaffe interrogators of WW2 became a world-renowned mosaic artist after the war, going on to create the 15 foot mosaics telling the story of Cinderella in the Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World.
GxVj TIL murderer Richard McNair mailed himself out of prison, convinced a police officer he wasn’t the fugitive they were looking for, and lived in Canada for over a year while running a blog on himself
j6rGR TIL people believe that survival rate after CPR is 75%, while in reality it's only 7.6% after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and only 17% for in-hospital cardiac arrest
Apj4 TIL one of the fastest speeds ever achieved on the German Autobahn was 432kph (268mph) in a Mercedes-Benz W125, in the year 1938.
Wnp4 TIL a man with severe OCD and a phobia of germs attempted to commit suicide at the age of 19 via a gunshot wound to the head. Instead of killing him, the bullet eliminated his mental illness without any other brain damage.