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TIL that white on black murders make up 4% of all homicides in the US. Black on white murders make up 8%.

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6ypY TIL that there is a New York City hot dog vendor who pays $289,000/year for his location.
5YNl8 TIL character actor Richard Deacon, best known for playing Dick Van Dyke’s boss on the Dick Van Dyke Show, was a gourmet chef. He wrote several cookbooks, and even hosted a cooking show in Canada.
JYxkV TIL that for 70 years a bunch of New Zealanders have continued to fervently believe that moose still live on the South Island of NZ despite no actual sightings since 1952 - the mystery has been compared to Bigfoot
d8oK7 TIL of Unpaired Words, negative words whose positive forms are rare or no longer in use. For example, the opposites of 'overwhelmed', 'innocent', and 'inert' are the rarely heard 'whelmed', 'nocent', and 'ert'.
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