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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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GYod4 TIL that in 1980, The Beatles had planned a reunion concert for a TV documentary on the band, titled The Long and Winding Road. The planned reunion was scrapped following the murder of John Lennon on December 8th of the same year.
wLerJ TIL then 13 year-old Danielle Lei, a Girl Scout in San Francisco, was the first Girl Scout to make news by selling cookies outside a marijuana dispensary. She sold 117 boxes in 2 hours.
XEVVr TIL President Grover Cleveland first met his future wife Frances when he was 27 and she was a newborn. He bought her a baby carriage and helped raise her following her father's death. He then married her when she turned 21 (he was 49). She remains the youngest wife of a sitting president.
PY6kO TIL:In 1974 artist Marina Abramović displayed her performance art "Rhythm 0"-Where she stayed still for 6 hours and let guests do what ever they wanted to her with 72 items she had placed on a table. One of the items were a loaded gun. The guests started out gentle but got worse after couple of hrs.
78ENp TIL the mangaka Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon) is married to another famous manga author Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter x Hunter and Yu Yu Hakusho)