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For cities of 1 millon up, Chicago is the most violent in USA ( en.m.wikipedia.org )

Chicago vs. worst ranking, based on...

TIL that the judge in the Carroll rape case clarified that Trump did rape Jean Carroll ( www.washingtonpost.com )

All the news headlines and verdict said sexual abuse, which was kind of vague, but I just found out today that the judge clarified that this was a matter of legal definition and by the verdict of the trial and the case, trump has been found guilty of penetrative rape.

TIL - Bulgaria , over the past 35 years, has seen the fastest decline in population of any country in the world — a 28 percent drop ( e360.yale.edu )

TIL Children as young as eight can and have been put on the sex offender registry, which lasts the rest of their lives. ( jlc.org )

TIL The Katy Freeway in Houston, TX was expanded in 2008 to 26 lanes (one of the widest in the world) and 5 years later had longer peak travel times than before the expansion ( www.nytimes.com )

For critics of widening projects, the prime example of induced demand is the Katy Freeway in Houston, one of the widest highways in the world with 26 lanes....

TIL The initial rate in 1866 for messages sent along transatlantic cable was $10 a word, with a ten word minimum. ( www.pbs.org )

The initial rate in 1866 for messages sent along the transatlantic cable was ten dollars a word, with a ten word minimum, meaning that a skilled workman of the day would have to set aside ten weeks' salary in order to send a single message. As a practical matter, this limited cable use to governments (transmissions from the...

TIL Alice Walton (Walmart heir) killed a pedestrian in a driving accident and was never charged. She has also been arrested for DUI twice but never charged. ( en.wikipedia.org )

The sketchy part is not her not getting convicted. It's that no charges were even filed. I also enjoyed this bit of info from one of the sources regarding the other DUI incident. Prosecutors in Texas have dropped a 2011 drunken driving citation against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. heiress Alice Walton.