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TIL TIL Despite "Timmy's In The Well" being what most people remember from the famous show "Lassie" which ran for 571 episodes that scene never happened. Timmy never fell down a well, he did however fall into abandoned mine shafts, off cliffs, into rivers, lakes and quicksand, to name a few.

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d87x7 TIL The first gun in Canadian history was a matchlock musket introduced by Sir Humphrey Gilbert when he arrived in Newfoundland in 1583. The first guns made in Canada date back to the 1830s when William Gurd of York built guns that had locks converted from flintlocks
epk4J TIL about The Many Faces of Jesus, an abandoned film by Jens Jørgen Thorsen, which pornographically depicts Jesus engaged in homosexual and heterosexual sex acts, as well as drunkenness and robbery. Even Queen Elizabeth II made a public comment calling the planned film "obnoxious".
LkYld TIL the Conservatives in 1930 Germany first disliked Hitler. However, they even more dislike the left and because of Hitler's rising popularity and because they thought they could "tame" him, they made Hitler Chancelor in 1933.
Z8n1G TIL: Anarcho-primitivism is a political ideology that advocates a return to non-"civilized" ways of life through deindustrialization, abolition of the division of labor or specialization and abandonment of large-scale organization technologies. Or...devolution.
VBRJp TIL Since the 1970s, the residents of Annapolis, Maryland have celebrated an Oyster Roast and Sock Burning every year on the Spring Equinox.