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

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epRXL TIL that honey has long been known to be a natural antiseptic, and can promote wound healing, mainly due the natural creation of hydrogen peroxide by enzymes.
kJLGE TIL that Resident Evil 1 writer Kenichi Iwao conceived of Chris's surname Redfield under the presumption that it's a fictional name entirely of his original creation that nobody has the real world until 2020 when he found out about the then CDC director Dr Robert Redfield in a news report
8ab9V TIL about Pedro Alonso Nino, a Black-Spanish explorer who piloted The Santa Maria on Columbus’s first voyage to America. He comes from the famed Nino Brothers. The La Niña, another of Columbus ships was actually owned by Pedro’s brother, Juan.
d8b5B TIL Canadian billionaire, Barry Sherman, was murdered, along with his wife, Honey in 2017. The murders remain unsolved.
LYm0 TIL the band Vulfpeck crowdfunded a free concert tour by uploading an album Sleepify to Spotify and asking their friends to play it on repeat while they slept. The album consisted only of 10 short silent tracks. Before Spotify removed the album the band had made the royalties amounting over $20,000.