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TIL that the Canadian Province of Alberta has been Rat-Free for more than 50 Years

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70D7 TIL Seth MacFarlane (of Family Guy, American Dad, and Ted) missed boarding American Airlines Flight 11 by fifteen minutes on September 11, 2001. He was late because of a bad travel agent and a hangover.
0kxy TIL after a botched execution by lethal injection in which the condemned man writhed in pain for over 30 minutes the warden stated that the condemmed man was actually just “stretching to see a clock in the death chamber”
4kkNN TIL the famous "Scopes Monkey Trial" of 1925 was deliberately conceived as a publicity stunt for the town of Dayton, Tennessee. Residents of the town held a protest and threatened to boycott Chattanooga when the trial was initially to be moved there.
6Eyxl TIL that in Belarus, a one-armed protester was arrested for violating a ban - on clapping
16x5r TIL that the world’s first entirely 3D-printed neighborhood is currently being built in Mexico, providing affordable housing solutions for families living on $3 a day.