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AJXl TIL El Paso, TX was once considered the second-safest city in America. Meanwhile, the Mexican city with which it shares a border, Juarez, had one of the highest murder rates in the world.
4kA6a TIL that 5 Christian Churches use the title of Patriarch of Antioch: the Syriac Orthodox, the Maronite, the Syriac Catholic, the Melkite Greek Catholic, and the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch. Although no current patriarch is based in the city of Antioch (modern-day Antakya, Turkey)
aLv9 TIL there is a tribe in India that has learned how to train the roots of fig trees to create natural suspension bridges that can span over 100 feet, and last 500-600 years.
ELeo TIL - Friedrich Nietzsche held a pessimistic view on modern society and popular culture. He believed the press and mass culture led to conformity and brought about mediocrity resulting in a lack of intellectual progress, leading to the decline of the human species..
7r67O TIL: Despite the widely-held belief that ICEE created the Blue Raspberry flavor in the early 1970's, there's record of the Gold Medal company, which made Sno-Kones, using the flavor as early as 1958 for their cotton candy.