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TIL that crime in the USA has declined steadily since the 1990’s.

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R5R16 TIL of Académie de Saint-Luc a guild of painters and sculptors set up in Paris in 1391, it was dissolved in 1777 following such a successful exhibition that the Royal Academy issued an edict to abolish guilds, brotherhoods, and communities of arts and crafts.
ZrOo TIL that in 1971, the U.S. left a memorial on the Moon for every astronaut who died in the pursuit of space exploration, including Russian Cosmonauts
GAvJQ TIL that There is a ranking to measure a country's level of multiculturalism (ethnic, linguistic and religious). The most ethnically and linguistically diverse is Uganda and the most religiously diverse is South Africa.
BrXKr TIL that if the atom was the size of the observable universe, then the theoretical ‘string’ in string theory would be the size of a tree.
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