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TIL Overall crime in NYC is down 80% since 1990

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ZpxPR TIL - Sati Handprints. When the maharaja died in 1847, his 6 wives and 58 concubines all burned with him on the pyre.
b9E9 TIL at serial killer Carl Panzram’s execution, when asked if he had any last words, he said, “Yes, hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard! I could kill ten men while you’re fooling around!”
78GQb TIL that the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the continental US occurred in New Madrid, MO, in 1812. It was so violent that the shaking was felt in New York, made church bells ring in South Carolina, and made part of the Mississippi River run backwards.
69BBQ TIL Chevy Chase dropped the n-word on the set of Community.
8BBV TIL: In 325 AD St. Nicholas lost it and slapped a fellow bishop at the Council of Nicaea.