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TIL Burnaby, British Columbia announced a 100 year plan in 2019 to transform a large shopping mall into a downtown core with high rises, plazas, walkable streets

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0wXX1 TIL the IRS has a line for you to declare money you made illegally. "Ill-gotten gains" are as taxable as any other income...except the IRS will totally rat you out after taking their cut.
R5NP1 TIL Ancient Earth May Have Smelled Like Rotten Eggs
KY9g4 TIL in early cinema, actors were not credited in films because producers feared fame might lead to demands for higher wages from stars. In 1910, Florence Lawrence (formerly just "the Biograph Girl") became the first actress to have her name used in advertisements to promote her movies.
R5Ygl TIL the 8-question Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8) can cost researchers up to $100,000 to license.
XKvD TIL the first and last British soldiers that died in WWI are, by coincidence, buried 15 feet away from each other.