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TIL A downtown Vancouver mall invites individuals with nowhere to go to sleep on the property overnight overnight and use its facilities when it opens its doors early in the morning. Night-shift employees conduct life safety checks, with first aid and mental health training

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8gxV TIL Ronda Rousey believes that the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting and the 20 children who were murdered there was a government conspiracy
JYZDV TIL that in the late 1940s a team of American scientists infected 1,308 unwitting people in Guatemala with gonorrhea and syphilis. At least 83 died.
OK7X TIL that neanderthals didn’t rely on lightning strikes to make fire, instead, they used chemistry, by putting manganese dioxide on wood to lower the temperature required to create a flame.
4kVJa TIL 196 workers died during the construction of the 5-mile Hoosac railway Tunnel due to accidents
lNa7 TIL That a Syrian Bear had the rank of Corporal in the Polish Army during WW2, and after the War would be visited by former soldiers from his company and given cigarettes, which he would eat because there was no one to light them for him.