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TIL 70% of murders in Detroit go unsolved.

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OGgMe TIL about the Japanese pocket knife “Higonokami”. After feudal Japan slowly transformed into a modern industrial state, samurai became obsolete and were banned from carrying swords in public. Consequently, blacksmiths started making knives; with the higonokami becoming the most unique one.
wLM77 TIL there is a Lieutenant Columbo statue in Budapest.
5O79 TIL that in 2004 the first wolverine sighting was made in Michigan in over 200 years.
xVJmo TIL that Richard Dominick, the man responsible for much of the success of the Jerry Springer Show, Hardcore Pawn, Bait Car, etc. was also a reporter for "The Sun" grocery store tabloid and swore on David Letterman's show that all the stories reported are 100% true.
rDR4 TIL that the CIA and MI6 orchestrated a 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, a secular, democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. This led to 26 years of rule under a repressive monarch.