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TIL Vancouver, Canada has the least affordable housing in North America, more expensive than Manhattan and San Francisco

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XE9Dr TIL that Carfentanyl (think "normal" Fentanyl but on crack) is so potent that it can be used as a chemical weapon. It was most likely used during the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis as an aerosol mist to subdue the Chechen hostage takers.
Wkg1B TIL fungi that feed on radiation have developed in the Chernobyl area.
DQ8Y TIL Homosexuality has been decriminalized in France since 1791
4X8KX TIL that approximately 70 people spent four years in Madagascar collecting and handling over 1 million golden orb weaver spiders to use their silk in the production of an 11-by-4-foot (3.4-by-1.2m) “golden” embroidered cloth, the largest ever of it’s kind.
9O6D TIL During a battle in WW1 an Ottoman Commander told his troops “I do not order you to fight, I order you to die. In the time which passes until we die, other troops and commanders can come forward and take our places”