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TIL that US teen crime is now at lowest level since 1960.

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QJmk TIL Adam Richman from Man Vs. Food is a vegetarian when he’s not filming.
4XXdo TIL in 2007, a 73-year-old man underwent surgery and suffered "anesthesia awareness" -- a condition where the patient is conscious and feels pain but is paralyzed and cannot alert the surgeon. The man's resulting PTSD led him to suicide, prompting a lawsuit against the anesthesiologists.
x6JRD TIL that the inspiration for the 1965 book and 1967 film The Dirty Dozen was the 1st Demolition Section of the Regimental Headquarters Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, of the United States Army aka the Filthy Thirteen.
b6JJp TIL There are filial laws in the USA (state by state) that require adult children to support sick or indigent parents
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