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TIL That around 40% of US homicides remain unsolved.

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AmQg TIL the term ‘footage’ comes from films being measured in feet when being edited in the early days of film making.
BgV5r TIL iconic country singer Hank Williams' #1 hit songs "Kaw-Liga", "Your Cheatin' Heart" and "Take These Chains From My Heart" were released posthumously.
oBM6Y TIL that in June and September 1963, President Kennedy federalized thousands of Alabama National Guardsmen in order to enforce desegregation in Alabama and end Governor Wallace's blockade of the University of Alabama and an Alabaman public school
XKdr TIL the FBI kept a file on Louis Armstrong for his outspokenness about integration.
QJyVd TIL the actor Martin Sheen has been arrested 66 times for protesting and other civil disobedience.