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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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R5804 TIL that I've been calling everything an ACRONYM when in fact they could instead be an INITIALISM. An acronym can be spoken like a word e.g. FIFA, NASA, RAM, where as an initialism cannot be easily spoken as a word e.g. FBI, CIA, UFO, HSBC, and are instead pronounced letter by letter.
e0nN5 TIL Dick Bass, the first person to scale the seven summits, was on a flight when he deluged his seatmate for hours with details of his treks on all seven continents. Before they landed, he realized he hadn't asked his new friend anything about himself. "That's OK," the man said, "I'm Neil Armstrong"
9xdm TIL that in the state of California (and many others), it’s legal for police officers to kill somebody just for resisting the ‘execution of some legal process'—which means you don’t even have to be resisting arrest for the police to kill you in a 'justifiable homicide.’
ADPYx TIL English sailor, William Adams, had landed in Japan, after his crew had been plagued by violent attacks, terrible weather, and fatal illness. Upon the crew's arrival, Adams earned a position as an adviser to the Shogun, Ieyasu, and the status of being one of the first Western Samurais.
R5ml TIL that there is a boat which sails around to countries with restrictive abortion laws, and offers abortions in international waters.