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TIL - Chicago has the highest murder rate in the country, and the lowest prosecution rate for gun crimes (Forbes)

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AK9a TIL an Australian research institute ran a four-month study “to answer the age old question, ‘Where have all the bloody teaspoons gone?’”. Results: 80% of the teaspoons in the study disappeared, with the half life of the teaspoons calculated at 81 days
grOO9 TIL Mountain Dew was originally invented in the 1940s to be mixed with (often homemade) whiskey
kepg TIL In 2005 , the United Nations Deemed SCOTLAND “The Most Violent Country in The Developed World”
46Yb TIL that despite his illegal and often homicidal tendencies, Al Capone set up multiple soup kitchens for those in need following the Stock Market crash in 1929.
8lZP TIL In 1994 U.S. Senator Howell Heflin accidentally wiped his nose with his wife’s panties in front of reporters