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TIL After Vancouver hosted 2010 Olympics, its Olympics Village became a ghost town, to the extent that a sales campaign discounted remaining units by up to 50% in 2011. The developer fell short on its loan payments because of poor sales

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6EvN7 TIL that in 1978, Reinhold Messner reached the summit of Mt Everest without using supplementary oxygen, a task which had previously been considered impossible. Two years later, he did it again by himself, completing the first solo ascent of the mountain
m7jx TIL In a Blind Taste Test of San Francisco Sourdough Bread, the winner was actually from Los Angeles. They were so confused by the results, they re-did the blind test, only for the breads to rated in the exact same order.
OG9dg TIL that olives can cause cats to become playful and excited because they contain a compound called nepetalactone, which can also be found in catnip.
dDpEB TIL a woman superglued her own teeth back into her mouth when one would fall out for more than a decade because she was terrified of the dentist. As a result, she lost 90% of the bone supporting her teeth in her upper jaw. When she finally sought help, most of her teeth had to be removed & replaced.
EggLp TIL that the life expectancy of reinforced concrete is 50-100 years.