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TIL San Francisco has the most expensive rent in the world

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8aaBK TIL dogs tilt their head because they can't resolve the direction of sound vertically, but humans can because of our ear shape
ep4DL TIL about early ‘competitive eater’ and local Kent celebrity Nicholas Wood, whose stunts were reported in 1630 to include eating a whole sheep raw in one sitting (including the wool, horns, and bones), 7 dozen rabbits in one meal, and 400 pigeons in another
e0YZL TIL the Parental Advisory label was created in part because a mom caught her 11 year old daughter singing the sexually explicit lyrics to “Darling Nikki" by Prince. The Recording Industry Association of America responded by introducing a content warning label.
9w5m TIL just 2 days after Nikola Tesla’s death, the FBI ordered the Office of Alien Property (OAP) to seize all of his belongings, even though Tesla was an American citizen. The “Alien Property Custodian” was an office of the US Government that was in charge of the property that belonged to US enemies.
lV4A TIL an average of 38 children die each year in the U.S from heat stroke as a result of being forgotten about in the back seat of a vehicle on a summer day. 755 children have needlessly died this way since 1990.