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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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VBK1k TIL the phrase "Writing on the Wall" originates from the Book of Daniel (Old Testament) in which King Belshazzar sees a disembodied hand writing the doomed fate of the Babylonian Empire on a wall at a party
6EnP8 TIL- James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr in ‘68, escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, TN 6/10/77, with six other convicts. He was captured 3 days later.
mxENR TIL, a Bugatti Veyron has 16 oil plugs and changing the oil takes 27 hours, costing $21,000.
QPRX TIL When told the reason for daylight saving time a Native American said, “Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.”
ANox TIL In the 1800s, feeding lobster to prisoners was considered “cruel and unusual punishment, like making people eat rats”.