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TIL 44% of homeless people in the US actually have jobs but can’t afford housing

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EMxp TIL: A man got a job as the chief of police with falsified credentials which included a picture of a fake Los Angeles Police Department badge bearing the serial number 714, rightfully belonging to the fictional Sgt. Joe Friday of “Dragnet.”
1lNO TIL that the best selling item at Wal-Marts are bananas
B7lk TIL in 1912, Japan sent the USA some Japanese Cherry Trees as a sign of their blossoming friendship. After WW2, Japan’s Cherry Trees were weak and sick so the USA sent a bunch of them back to reinvigorate their trees!
nA6o TIL In Japan hospitals must be run as non-profit and be managed by physicians.
X61P TIL a professor of molecular biology successfully put the silk making gene of a spider into a goat. When milked, the goat produces spider silk.