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TIL Almost 50% of Detroit’s remaining 700,000 residents are functionally illiterate; 60% of the children live in poverty (25 facts)

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oBo1K TIL of the Magic Roundabout, the “most complex intersection” in the world.
rRjEd TIL When 2nd in command of N-A-Z-I Germany, Hermann Goering, surrendered to the Americans he was in possession of thousands of pills of morphine. Goering gave the Americans a rare interview from his cell in July 1945. The notable excerpts are in the comments;
1aYgV TIL that Samwise Gamgee's daughter in Lord of the Rings was actually played by his real life daughter. After all these years she's back to act with him again!
wL58o TIL Osama bin Laden left a will that he had written shortly after 9/11 in which he urged his children not to join al-Qaeda and not to continue the Jihad.
ADN8n TIL modern day Samaritans follow Samaritanism which they believe to be the original, unchanged version of Judaism.