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TIL that if Detroit was a country, it would have the fourth highest murder rate in the whole world.

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ARp7 TIL that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was elected with 100% of the votes. The ballot listed only him. Citizens are allowed to cross out his name and write in a new one, but they must step outside the election booth to do so, and write down the new name in front of election officials.
78n1L TIL about stellar nucleosynthesis, the process by which chemical elements are created by nuclear fusion reactions within stars. The theory can be used to accurately estimate the abundance of elements, why abundance fluctuates, and why some are more common than others.
KOQ1Q TIL King Tut had a Dagger Made from a Meteorite
8akbL TIL about White Tower restaurants started in the 1920s, which was a knock off of White Castle, had staff dressed as nurses to help give the impression that it was a hygienic place to eat.
P1LmG TIL: Elfriede Lina Huth Rinkel had been a concentration camp Nazi guard and then married a Jewish man after the war. She never told her husband before he died.