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TIL Murder rates were so high during the 1970s and 1980s in Miami, FL that the Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office rented a refrigerated trailer from Burger King to handle the overflow of corpses

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ywaX TIL In November 2016, North Korea made a state request to officials in China pleading for them to stop referring to ‘glorious leader’ Kim Jong-un as fat. Some of his nicknames in China were: Kim Fatty III, Kim Fat Fatty, and Kim Abundant III.
7rMdb TIL at any given time there are about 2000 thunderstorms around the globe producing approximately fifty lightning events per second.
NBvE TIL there is a naturally occurring black rose. They grow in only one place, a small village in Turkey called Halfeti. And they only appear black in the summer months.
695d8 TIL in all regions of the world some people used to eat soil and many still do that today
a87nM TIL that it is a myth that most lottery winners end up broke.