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TIL In its heyday, Yale, British Columbia, was named the largest town north of San Francisco and west of Chicago, with a peak population of about 16,000 and a reputation for lawlessness and violence

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v1QwB TIL that the Eiffel Tower grows in summer. When it gets hot, the iron expands due to the heat and shrinks again in the winter. It grows by 6 inches each summer.
BpEy TIL that the last soldier to surrender after WWII was Hiroo Onoda in 1974. His former commander had to come and personally relieve him because he refused to believe the war was over.
Z8xnD TIL of "peine forte et dure", a type of torture used in the common law legal system when a person remained silent upon questioning. It consisted of progressively heavier stones placed upon the chest until either a plea was entered, or the person died. It’s been legal for ~500 years, until 1772.
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