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TIL 70% of murders in Detroit go unsolved.

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kJdEE TIL: The Brazen Head was a legendary Bronze automatron in the late medieval period that is said to be magical and mechanical. It is able to answer any question correctly, but only with yes or no. The 2nd oldest pub in Ireland was also named the Brazen Head in 1198
J1QMB TIL that Indigenous people reclaimed the island of Alcatraz for 19 months.
Zp8e4 TIL Timothy Olyphant was originally offered the role of Dominic Toretto in The Fast and The Furious. Olyphant passed thinking the movie would bomb at the box office and the role was given to Vin Diesel.
ADOQo TIL that the Wayne's World famous 'NO Stairway to Heaven' scene came to be because Led Zeppelin denied the rights to the song, so Myers just said to the camera 'No Stairway, Denied!' after just a couple of notes.
Npr8 TIL: Eddie Gein serves as a basis for Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Silence of the Lambs. Ed Gein had home furnishings made from human skin and bone, as well as a shoe box full of preserved female genitalia, Bowls made of Skulls and a full body suit made a flesh.