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TIL: 90% of interracial violent crime is committed by blacks against whites.

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Egx4V TIL that the soap opera As the World Turns has the longest total running time of any TV show, with 13,763 hours of total narrative. If you binged it for 8 hours a day, it would take you 4 years and 8 months to finish it all.
P1lvZ TIL Chinese ghost weddings marry one deceased person to a living person, or two deceased people. They exist to make it so your dead loved ones won't be lonely in the afterlife. Ceremonies can include typical customs like matchmakers to dowries.
5VXpk TIL in 2020 Marvel unveiled a promo for a new comic book starring all-new Gen-Z superheroes with names such as Screentime, Snowflake and Safespace. After a considerable amount of backlash from fans, the project was evidently scrapped and never mentioned again.
wowP7 TIL PFC Ralph H Johnson A US Marine was awarded the Medal Of Honor for his heroic action on March 5, 1968. While shooting the enemy from a fire hole, An enemy grenade landed in between him and his comrade. He shouted a warning before hurling himself upon the grenade. He saved the life of One Marine.
b6lx0 TIL that the Great Vowel Shift between 1400-1700 was a series of pronunciation changes in English. With that many words froze with spelling and pronunciations not matching. This is why some English vowels are a mess with words like "meat" and "meet" being spelt differently but pronounced the same.