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TIL that the the fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine, setting of the show "Murder She Wrote," has a murder rate of 149 per 100,000 residents; compared to St. Louis, Missouri, which lead the U.S. in 2020 with 87 murders per 100k residents.

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5VGN8 TIL The American Voice Actor for Bob in Bob The Builder until it's 9th season, William Dufris, also was responsible for audiobook work on The X Files series, The Pendragon Series, and many more titular fiction and non fiction works.
BgJ0d TIL that in 1937, seven North American beavers were released in Finland as an effort to boost the population of the Eurasian beaver (nearly hunted to extinction) before it was known that they were actually two distinct species. Today, approximately 12,000 North American beavers live in Finland.
xVEV5 TIL that the real color of the sun is white. It just appears yellow to us due to earths atmosphere scattering the higher wavelengths of light.
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9Yx1G TIL that Richard Feynman created an assembly line of female mathematicians to simulate a computer during the Manhattan Project because the actual computers from IBM were delayed in arriving to Los Alamos. Turns out their "system" could calculate just as fast (just not round-the-clock).