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TIL San Francisco has the most expensive rent in the world

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7rElO TIL about Ernst Thälmann, leader of Germany’s radical left in the last years of the Weimar Republic, who thought the center left was a greater danger than the right.
Ydx7 TIL from 1993 to 2008, the same DNA was discovered at 40 different crime scenes in Europe, leading to the investigation of the “Phantom of Heilbronn”, which turned out to be a woman working in a cotton swab factory who inadvertently contaminated the swabs with her own DNA.
e0ZE4 TIL Pluto has five known moons. It is considered by many scientists to be a double planet system, because the largest moon, Charon, is so big (half the size of Pluto itself) that the two orbit a spot in between each other instead of Charon just orbiting Pluto like a smaller moon would.
a8WJ0 TIL: Meowing is an interesting vocalization in that adult cats don't actually meow at each other, just at people. Kittens meow to let their mother know they're cold or hungry, but once they get a bit older, cats no longer meow to other cats.
GY7Z7 TIL that James Michael Tyler got the role of Gunther the barista in "Friends" because he was the only extra who knew how to use an espresso machine. He would go on to appear in 185 of the show's 236 episodes over 10 seasons, and he still receives residuals for his work.