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TIL “Wet houses”–permanent supportive housing where formerly homeless, chronic alcoholics are allowed to drink and live–saved Seattle over $4 million in the first year and continually saves lives

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494o TIL in 2012 only 60 NYPD officers discharged their weapons.(0.17%) Of the 26,091 weapons arrest, 26,000 were completed without an officer firing their weapon. The race stats of the officers who discharged weapons almost directly matches the racial makeup of the NYPD.
oBp48 Til that if adjusted for inflation,The Birth of a Nation(1915) is the first ever film to gross a over a billion dollars,at 1.8 billion dollars gross(in modern money),making it the forth highest grossing film ever.
lo55V TIL that due to a copyright issue, George Romero's film Night of the Living Dead is in the public domain, and can be downloaded for free on the internet. It is currently the most downladed film on the Internet Archive, with 3.1 million downloads.
m101p TIL Cows Have Been Shown Not Only To Have Friends, But Best Friends & Experience Stress On Separation
nWoVo TIL The United States and India have the most total English speakers, with 306 million and 265 million. Followed by Pakistan (104 million), the United Kingdom (68 million), and Nigeria (60 million)