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TIL that St. Louis, New Orleans, Detroit and Baltimore all have murder rates that are higher than Medellín Colombia and Rio de Janeiro.

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a8dao TIL that cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and many other vegetables are all the same plant, just bred to accentuate different features
Zpw6Q TIL the Portuguese Man o’ War is a colonial organism, where many organisms form one unit. They produce both sexually and asexually. First, the male and female polyps release gametes into the water which, when fertilized, result in larvae that then begin to reproduce asexually to create a new colony.
nWNwW TIL in ancient Babylon, they worshiped the god Marduk via his statue. Enemy rulers who defeated Babylon would often take the statue. All five kings known to have taken the statue of Marduk from Babylon died violently at the hands of their own family members
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