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TIL It Costs Less to House the Homeless, Than to Leave Them on the Street

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g6A9 TIL in 2006, The FBI planted an informant in a South California mosque who pretended to be a radical muslim, and the muslims in the mosque reported him to the FBI
Z8yJo TIL Shinjuku Station in Tokyo is the busiest transport hub in the world - used by an average of 3.6 million people per day
b6X94 TIL about Poverty Point, a Native American site dated to 1,700 B.C. which was built by moving 53,000,000 cubic feet of soil by hand, creating massive mounds which the "city" was built on. It was a society of hunter gathers that created an expansive trade network that reached from Louisiana to Ohio.
XEpVj TIL After 3 years at Harvard, Gabe Newell dropped out to join Microsoft in 1983. He later said: "I learned more in 3 months at Microsoft than in my entire time at Harvard"
DXZv TIL the stethoscope was invented because a French doctor felt uncomfortable placing his face on a younger woman’s chest.