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TIL that Detroit has the worst 911 response time in America, with police & EMS taking over an hour to show up. In 2013, despite numerous 911 calls, police arrived 90 minutes later to find Stacey Hightower had been murdered by an intruder. Her mother sued the city of Detroit, but they were bankrupt.

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Adwa TIL from 2003-2009, only 130 people in China volunteered to be organ donors.
9YP5p TIL that during the Winter War of 1939-1940, Russian tanks and infantry attempted to flank Vyborg by crossing the frozen Gulf of Finland. When Finnish forces were alerted, they fired 12” coastal batteries into the ice. Entire Russian companies disappeared.
MemwA TIL: The 101st Airborne was nicknamed "The Chicken Men" by the NVA and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War because the Eagle insignia looks like a Chicken. North Vietnamese commander was warned to not fight with the "The Chicken Men", because you will surely lose the battle.
N7BAM TIL Marvin Gaye was fatally shot 35 years ago, one day before his 45th birthday, by his father
MeVQ0 TIL that actor Bob Odenkirk in Better Call Saul was fully trained as a Cinnabon employee to prepare for his role, and even refused a hand double - insisting on using his own hands in the bun-preparing montages