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Til in 2012, before the introduction of Uber, a Toronto Taxi license was sold for $360,000. By 2018 they were rumored to be down to $65,000 and likely still dropping.

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nWa8W TIL that the world's first full-length feature film was 'The Story of the Kelly Gang', made in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1906
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KYoB4 TIL two Imperial Japanese soldiers competed to see who would be the first to decapitate 100 surrendered Chinese soldiers with a sword. (they were later executed for war crimes, having killed 106 and 105, respectively)