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TIL that Canada has about twice as many Costcos versus the US on a per capita basis.

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M7Vb8 TIL that India had to ban charas (cannabis concentrate) due to pressure from the US.
BrMAD TIL Kurt Cobain's famous line “It’s better to burn out than to fade away” is a reference to Neil Young's song ‘Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)’. In an interview, Young said: "When he died and left that note, it struck a deep chord inside of me. It fucked with me."
Z8GmB TIL that with 168,151 people per square km, the Lalbagh Thana neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh, is most densely populated administrative subdivision in the world (~6.2x denser than Manhattan!)
KOpOE TIL Operation Wandering Soul was a psychological warfare campaign used by the United States during the Vietnam war where eerie sounds and altered screams were played in battlefields. This exploited the Vietnamese belief that unburied soldiers’ souls would wander in constant pain and suffering
om9R TIL that crack pipes are sold as fake flowers in a glass tube at convenience stores.