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TIL it is estimated over 95% of structural fires in Detroit are due to arson – fifty times the national average.

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NXgp6 TIL the Nordic European countries celebrate Fastelavn, alike halloween, which includes traditionally kids beating a barrel with a cat inside using a bat (not anymore), beg for money and candy and flog their parents with sticks
9YWbm TIL Kim Jong Il once kidnapped the biggest South Korean director and movie star (who were also ex-husband and wife) and brought them to North Korea to make movies for him. They escaped by convincing him to let them go abroad to promote the North Korean film industry.
9wKQ TIL The Dalai Lama eats meat every other day, and once said “I’m a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian.
QJK6k TIL: Larry McMurtry wrote the novels for the movies "Hud", "The Last Picture Show", "Terms of Endearment", "Brokeback Mountain", and is still living in the town he was born in, in Texas.
vgjr TIL: USA Has Been At War 223 Out of 240 Years – Since 1776 i.e. USA has been at peace for in total 17 years since it’s birth.