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TIL Montreal recently started taxing churches

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8aMRV TIL that in the 1920s banks regulated how women could dress because a mother complained that her son did business with a woman who was 'illegally attractive'
eegD TIL Dolphins can see our skeletons and heartbeats via their sonar and have even been known to ward off sharks preying on humans.
YnAA TIL there is a mid-rise shopping center in Zimbabwe which uses an air conditioning system inspired by African termite hills. It is ventilated and cooled by natural means, and uses less than 10% of the energy of a conventional building its size.
EypX TIL a drug was developed in the 1970s that increases long term memory as much as 152%
4kvoJ TIL that Jackie Robinson so loathed the idea of playing outside of New York City that he accepted a Vice President of Personnel position at another iconic New York institution, the Chock Full o’Nuts coffee chain, instead of moving with the Dodgers to Los Angeles.