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TIL that the Packard plant in Detroit is the largest abandoned industrial facility in the world.

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lo1V5 TIL that Detroit has the worst 911 response time in America, with police & EMS taking over an hour to show up. In 2013, despite numerous 911 calls, police arrived 90 minutes later to find Stacey Hightower had been murdered by an intruder. Her mother sued the city of Detroit, but they were bankrupt.
j667p TIL about Deafula (1975), the first ever film performed entirely in American Sign Language. It was released with no audio track in the original release, but later releases include a dub for hearing audiences.
w48 TIL there is a Magic: The Gathering card called “ Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made this Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental”
XLlk TIL that in 2012, after they won a shooting competition in Kuwait, the Kazakhstan team were subjected to the anthem from Borat, rather than their own national anthem at the medals ceremony.
4ylb TIL… When Lord Kelvin claimed the Earth was not old enough to support Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, it was Darwin’s son, George Darwin, who helped prove his calculation invalid due to radiation from the earth’s core.