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TIL Overall crime in NYC is down 80% since 1990

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m1l0p TIL German author Friedrich Nietzsche would send letters calling for the German emperor to go to Rome to be shot & called for military action against Germany. He called for the Pope to be jailed & all anti-Semites to be shot. He also stated he created the world & signed his letters as 'Dionysus.'
9YRaQ TIL: Asbestos is not banned in the US. It’s still imported raw and sold in consumer goods.
GYJK1 TIL there are over 300 World Trade Centers across the world operated by the World Trade Centers Association
YpBPv TIL Stevie Nicks wrote Stand Back while listening to Prince’s Little Red Corvette. Because Stevie wrote Stand Back using the exact music for Little Red Corvette, she called Prince to tell him about the song, and he showed up at her studio 25 minutes later to record the synthesizers for it.
9YpKB TIL Einstein mused that he would have liked to have been a plumber, and promptly was awarded honorary membership in the plumbers’ union