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TIL In eight years, Utah has quietly reduced homelessness by 78 percent, and is on track to end homelessness by 2015

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YO1Z TIL Pixar credits its success to its anti-Disney approach: no songs, no happy village, no love story.
AD4Kw TIL about Room 39, a secret organization tasked with earning foreign money for the North Korean government. They are estimated to earn up to $1 Billion annually, allegedly being involved in drug trade, counterfeiting money, insurance fraud and workers exploitation. They also run a restaurant chain.
5VgYk TIL that one of the main Romanovs survived the Bolsheviks and came to live in Toronto Canada
x67ww TIL that in 1916, German spies sabotaged a US munitions plant in NYC resulting in one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in history that caused 530 million in property damage, including damaging the Statue of Liberty, and was felt as far away as Philadelphia.
5VPKR TIL that the longest English word is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," which is a type of lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silica dust