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TIL That Over Two Thirds of All Los Angeles Rentals Are Now Owned by Investment Corporations

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5p0p TIL wheeltappers used to use long-handled hammers to physically tap the wheels of trains, determining from the ringing sound if they were cracked or not.
v1ZyL TIL John Lennon tried to convince Paul McCartney to drill a hole in his skull as part of a practice called trepanning explaining “All you’d have to do is just bore a little hole in your skull and it lets the pressure off. Paul replied ‘ John, you try it and let me know how it goes.'”
NDKP TIL Prince Leopold IV of Lippe disinherited his 3 eldest sons after they joined the Nazi Party. He left the family fortune, farms, forests and castle to his youngest son, Armin.
4XyYR TIL the US actually made some attempts to use the metric system
yVe7v TIL that after scientists sequenced the genome of a tiger they found that it shares 95.6% of its DNA with the domestic cat, from which it diverged 10.8 million years ago.