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TIL after having their houses renovated on the TV show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”, many families have gone into foreclosure due to huge increases in property taxes, and cost of utility bills.

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x6vlw TIL that Trent Reznor was the final resident of 10050 Cielo Drive, Los Angeles, site of the Manson family murders but moved out after a random encounter with Sharon Tate's sister, who asked him: "Are you exploiting my sister's death by living in her house?"
b6EO7 TIL the Imperial Japanese Army killed 250,000 Chinese civilians while searching for US airmen after the Doolittle Raid,
9wwrD TIL that The Maze, Utah ranks as the one of riskiest hike in the world. It is the least accessible district of Canyonlands. It's a difficult place to navigate, with lots of side canyons and dead ends from the main trail. Food and water are scarce, and could take rescuers three days to reach.
oBkbL TIL that while researchers used to think premarital cohabitation led to less early divorces but more longer-term marriages, that may no longer prove true. Researchers now think premarital cohabitation has short‐term benefits and longer term costs for marital stability.
5ZPp TIL a dumb hole is like a black hole, but sound waves rather than light waves are absorbed and cannot escape. A lab created one in 2009