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TIL: San Francisco is no longer the most expensive place to live.

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E1k60 TIL about the Bombadier Beetle. The beetle stores two chemicals (hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide) in its abdomen and, when threatened, mixes them and ejects them from their abdomen in a chemical spray (with a popping sound!) that can reach boiling temperatures.
px6A TIL that Hitler wasn’t the only Führer of Nazi Germany. After his suicide, the second Führer was former Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels from 30 April-1 May 45 (Goebbels’ suicide). The last Führer was Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk from 1 May-27 May 1945.
yVbRM TIL That the dried up white dog poop common before the '90s was due to dog food containing too much calcium and bone meal.
M7Xa TIL that the first, and only, recorded non-Japenese Samuri, was an English sailor named, William Adams. He is also suspected to be the first Englishman to visit the islands.
LNmm TIL that Sean Bean, while filming Lord of the Rings, hated flying so much that, instead of going by helicopter, he sometimes opted to travel miles uphill in full Boromir gear