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TIL that 45 of the top ‘50 cities in the world by murder rate’ are in the Americas

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R7PY4 TIL that while the US allows the rBST hormone in dairy cattle, Canada has banned it because of its negative effects on health and wellness of cows; Canada also has higher quality milk due to its lower Somatic Cell Count.
8aLeZ TIL about schizophrenic numbers, which are irrational numbers that display similarities to rational numbers.
Abww TIL Dr. Dre is donating all of his artist royalties earned from Compton, his first album in 16 years, to help fund a new performing arts and entertainment facility in Compton.
rAjd TIL An orangutan from a zoo reintroduced to the wild in Borneo began spear fishing after watching local fisherman
8exyV TIL that The Great Attractor. In the realm of cosmic mysteries, it is a gravitational anomaly in intergalactic space that reveals the existence of a localized concentration of mass tens of thousands of times greater than that of the Milky Way. It's pulling galaxies towards it, including our own.