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TIL in Denmark, refugees, and their descendants commit 73% more crime than average

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7yyL TIL that a University of Texas study found that there are 237 unique reasons a woman will have sex with a man.
e0WNg TIL Cruise lines pay almost no taxes thanks to a maritime law loophole called "flags of convenience". Despite being headquartered in Miami, RCL and NCLH have all of their ships registered in the Bahamas. CCL has all of its ships registered in Panama.
9wrkB TIL that Norfolk Southern (rail freight company) partnered with other organizations to build and operate an entirely battery powered freight locomotive back in 2007
VoPk TIL that in 1861 Francis Key Howard wrote an editorial about President Lincoln’s suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus. He was subsequently imprisoned and held without trial for two years at Fort McHenry, where his grandfather Francis Scott Key wrote The Star Spangled Banner during the War of 1812
XWNr TIL that a severe hurricane hit Houston, USA during World War II but was kept largely a secret to the public by government authorities to prevent Axis knowledge of lost industrial capacities in the area