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TIL Detroit, Michigan is the blackest city in the U.S. It's population is 82.7% African-American.

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5Y8Rn TIL that in 2001 TacoBell offered to give "one free taco" to every US customer if the core of the Soviet Mir space station hit a TacoBell target in the middle of the south Pacific ocean. The target read: "Free Taco Here" with a TacoBell logo emblazoned in the middle.
RA97 TIL of John Leray, a French Mathematician who concealed his proficiency with differential equations to avoid working for the Nazis. While in a POW camp, he developed sheaves, sheaf cohomology, and spectral sequences which are important tools for modern Algebraic Geometry
AAZl TIL that in 2009 a Chinese boy became addicted to drinking petrol in order to become a Transformer.
rNyDW TIL that nearly two-thirds of all meteorites discovered on Earth are found in Antarctica.
oB578 TIL of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, when the Mormons killed 120-140 people of a wagon train passing through Utah