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TIL That the majority of people believe that violent crime rates are at an all time high, despite the fact that they have been steadily declining for decades

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kJx14 TIL Leo McCarey, the director of Duck Soup (1933), said in an interview with Cahiers du cinema in 1967: "The most surprising thing about this film was that I succeeded in not going crazy, because I really did not want to work with them: they were completely mad."
Oo0Q1 TIL that in 1838 Edgar Allen Poe wrote a book about a 4 man ship crew that ate their cabin boy, Richard Parker. In 1884 a 4 man ship crew ate their cabin boy, Richard Parker.
B4ky TIL in Fucking, Austria, after the residents voted against changing the Town’s name, the mayor stated “Fucking is Fucking—and it’s going to stay Fucking.”
x6aEk TIL The AT&SF Railroad operated a freight only airline division starting in 1946, pioneering refrigerated compartments, operated from West Coast to the Midwest. They were shut down by the CAB in 1947, citing a rule not allowing railroads to operate aircraft. Names the Santa Fe Skyway.
N7k9Q TIL about Humphrey the whale. Entered San Francisco Bay two times in 1985 and 1990. Both of his bay incursions resulted in rescue by the Marine Mammal Center, based in Marin County, California, assisted by the United States Coast Guard and hundreds of other volunteers.