While we are proud of our automotive heritage and music history there are lesser-known facts about Detroit. Here we will explore ten facts every Detroiter, historian, or pop-culture enthusiast should know.

Hundreds of people turned out at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History in Detroit to watch a broadcast of Michael Jackson’s memorial service.

University of Detroit professor Nick Rombes has published a book on punk rock. In an LA Times interview he acknowledges it took several years to research his book as he found the intricacies of a historical sound.