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TIL of how Alberta became the first place in the world to banish the rat

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x6rr5 TIL Leonardo Da Vinci invented the concept of a CVT transmission
KOXw6 TIL that the caps for PETE bottles (water and soda bottle containers) are made from a type of plastic which is not recyclable.
mvPR TIL Monsanto Managers discovered that fish submerged in a creek near one of their chemical facilities in Anniston, Alabama turned belly-up within 10 seconds, spurting blood and shedding skin as if dunked into boiling water. They told no one. They hid the pollution caused by PCBs for decades.
K1aJ TIL Moulay Ismaïl King of Morocco (1672-1727) is alleged to have fathered a total of 867 children, widely considered the record number of offspring for any man throughout history that can be verified.
69X4J TIL about Turkish oil wrestling a traditional sport where participants called pehlivan (wrestlers) or baspehlivan (master wrestlers), wrestle while covered in oil which makes it harder to grab each other