in the u.s., nearly half of all murderers get away with it.

in the united states, about 68,000 people die every year because they don't have health insurance.

this is more than the number of americans who are murdered each year.

the folks who do have health insurance are denied coverage by their insurance company for 1 out of every 3 claims, on average.

in your lifetime, you will walk past an average of 36 murderers.

after the adoption of nationwide no-fault divorce in the u.s., there were and are decreased rates of suicide, domestic violence, and spousal homicide for women.

in march of 2022, gun manufacturer remington agreed to pay $73 million to kill a lawsuit over the company’s marketing of military-style weapons to the general public – specifically the bushmaster ar-15 - used by a gunman to kill children at the sandy hook elementary school in 2012.

in 2006, vladimir putin ordered the murder of former russian federal security service director alexander litvinenko. litvenenko had spoken out about ties between the russian mafia and the kremlin.

after criticizing russian activities in ukraine, russian opposition leader boris nemtsov was gunned down on 2/27/15 in moscow on the orders of vladimir putin.

the spanish inquisition had no budget of its own, so lived on the possessions and money of those it sent to the flames... which it had a clear incentive to do.

the practice of scalping dead enemies was introduced to the american colonies in the 1660's by governor willem fieft of new netherland. it caught on: in massachusetts, the scalp of a dead native american was worth us$60. by the 1750's, a male native scalp was worth us$134 in pennsylvania and a female scalp was worth us$50.

that was how the native tribes learned to scalp.

between 1946 and 1948, american doctors funded by the national institutes of health deliberately infected 1,300 venezuelan citizens with venereal diseases. at the same time, the u.s.was trying nazi scientists in nuremberg for carrying out unethical experiments.

one of the doctors involved, john cutler, would later go on to infect black american soldiers with syphilis without their knowledge in order to see what happened to them over time.

between 1882 and 1968, 3446 black americans were lynched. 73% of the lynchings occurred in the southern states.

a 'columbian necktie' is a means of execution by slashing the victim's throat and pulling their tongue out through the wound.

in 2015, at least 185 people were killed for trying to keep their land from being seized by companies - the highest number recorded to date. the countries involved were brazil (50 deaths), the philippines (33), colombia (26), peru (12), nicaragua (12) and democratic republic of congo (11). the industries involved were mining (42 deaths), agribusiness (20), logging (15) and hydropower (15).

according to a study by propublica, young black men between 14 and 19 years old are 21 times more likely to be killed by police than young white men of the same age. statistics like this were motivators in the borth of the #blacklivesmatter movement.

number of children in the u.s. that die of physical abuse each day: 4

on average, 3 women and 1 man in the u.s. are murdered by their domestic partner each and every day, including christmas.

(women between 20 and 24 years of age are at the greatest risk.)

james bowie, for whom the bowie knife was named, made chuck norris look like (insert your colorful epithet of choice implying lack of masculinity here). after a duel that wasn't even his, bowie was shot 3 times and, when that didn't even slow him down, hit in the head by the shooter's gun. he killed that attacker with his hunting knife. another attacker, mistakenly assuming that 3 bullets and a major concussion would even the odds a bit, stabbed bowie in the chest with a sword. when that attacker couldn't get the sword back out, bowie disemboweled him.

president nixon ordered g. gordon liddy and howard hunt to kill a journalist that nixon disliked (syndicated columnist jack anderson).

every month in the u.s., 48 women are killed by their current or former significant others.

even though african americans make up just 13% of the u.s. population, they account for 42% of those killed by police officers while not armed and not attacking.