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TIL in 1976 Cleveland became the bombing capitol of America due to organized crime members bombing each other

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KOoAa TIL that in 2015, New York City went 12 days without a reported homicide. It was the longest streak since the NYPD began recording statistics with a computer program in 1994. The previous record was 10 days.
Wd4o TIL between the 1940’s and 70’s Harvard took nude photos of each entering freshman student
KOap9 TIL that the widowed wife of Lee Harvey Oswald (the man who shot JFK), Marina Oswald Porter, is still alive and living in Texas. She still believes that he was innocent of the assassination.
awpxb TIL that Charles Manson declared Scientology was "too crazy!".
deDQ TIL that in the early medieval Catholic Church, priests accused of pedophilia would be publicly beaten, have their heads shaven, and then be bound in chains and imprisoned.