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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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ownL TIL India’s Dabbawalas deliver 200,000 meals a day, making one mistake in every 6,000,000 deliveries. FedEx and Harvard are studying their methods.
a8AgZ TIL on 10 May 1977, Donald J. Smith and his father, Frank J. Smith, of Orlando, Florida, were awarded a patent for their variation of the comb over that conceals baldness by combing long hair in three separate directions.
R7ERj TIL The Selmer Company claims a 42 percent share of the U.S. professional band instrument market and 25 percent of beginner instrument sales. Over three-fourths of its unit sales are made to student musicians. Sales rose and fell in concert with the birth rate, albeit with a 10- to 11-year lag
OoKO6 TIL Beirut is the capital of Lebanon
Z8aN4 TIL hammerhead sharks have never killed a human. there have only been 17 unprovoked shark attacks by hammerheads since records begin in 1580, all non-fatal!