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TIL Qatar has more Indians living there (650,000) than actual native Qatari citizens (300,000)

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Lk4lV TIL of Eugène-François Vidocq, a formal criminal who founded the first Private Detective agency in 1833. He mostly hired ex-convicts. His innovations include taking a plaster cast of a shoe print and introducing undercover work. He claims to have never informed on someone who stole for real need.
VV70 TIL Lake Superior is so voluminous it could cover the entire area of the United States in over 4 feet of water
VMR6p TIL Over 60 old police cars were purchased for the making of the 1980 movie Blues Brothers' chase scenes, and none of them survived.
WKrd TIL Iran has the highest female to male ratio in universities among all sovereign nations. More than 70% of students in engineering and pure sciences are women.
M7k7V TIL in 1612 Jennet Device, a six-year-old girl, sentenced her family to death as witches