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TIL that in 2010 US crime rates were at their lowest in the past 40 years

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oBkRK TIL that the version of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" most people have seen is an edited version produced for the 1966 rebroadcast. The 1965 version was considered lost media until 2018, when an original film reel was discovered and its contents were uploaded to the internet