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TIL there was a 1983 mars landing planned in 1969
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TIL: that at 310,296 words, the constitution of Alabama is the longest constitution in the world, governing everything from bingo rules to catfish promotion.
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TIL that Charles Best, who assisted Fredrick Banting in his discovery of insulin, was chosen as Banting's assistant by coin flip.
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TIL: That Maine is the only US state not known to have any ‘dangerously venomous’ spiders.
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TIL Before she met Clyde, Bonnie Parker was a waitress. One of her regular customers was Ted Hinton who would later be one of the gunmen who killed her. Hinton later admitted he had a little crush on Bonnie which made hunting her down difficult.
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TIL of Paul Chartier, a Canadian man who attempted to bomb the Canadian House of Commons in 1966. Unfortunately (for him) the clerk who sold him the Dynamite misremembered the burn time of the fuse, resulting in the bomb prematurely exploding in a bathroom and killing him before he could use it.