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TIL Most Americans Believe U.S. Violent Crime is Worsening, when Really Rates are Near All-time Lows

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rRjEd TIL When 2nd in command of N-A-Z-I Germany, Hermann Goering, surrendered to the Americans he was in possession of thousands of pills of morphine. Goering gave the Americans a rare interview from his cell in July 1945. The notable excerpts are in the comments;
jL9R TIL that the last McDonalds hamburger sold in Iceland (from 2008) is rotting in a museum. And you can watch the livefeed.
M7RrA TIL The shows Persia's Got Talent and The Voice Persia were made in Sweden.
epkY5 TIL that lightsaber fights have become an official sport in France. As of 2019, it was the first country in the world to recognize it as such.
a8jLN TIL in the 5th century, a Chinese missionary named Hui Shen claimed to have found a land east of China called Fusang. It is now theorized that Fusang may have actually been North America, due to archeological similarities between the California coast and Fusang as depicted by Asian sources.