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TIL that US teen crime is now at lowest level since 1960.
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TIL that because left-handed people have an advantage in hand-to-hand combat, the rate of left-handed people is much higher in violent societies than peaceful societies
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TIL the Elephant Man had to sleep sitting up. One night he tried to sleep lying down, to be 'like other people', and he died from a dislocated neck.
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TIL the rat poison/life saving human medication Coumadin was discovered after cows were observed eating clover and then bleeding to death.
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TIL that the Vickers VC10 held the record for the fastest Atlantic crossing at 5 hours and 1 minute for 41 years, until a British Airways Boeing 747 surpassed it in 2020 with a time of 4 hours and 56 minutes.
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TIL that 18th century British churches employed "sluggard wakers" to whack the heads of parishioners who fell asleep during the service