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TIL canaries were used in coal mines to detect carbon monoxide

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loYeG TIL an ad had children looking at the ad see a photo of an abused boy, a help hotline and the message “if somebody hurts you, phone us and we’ll help you” while adults can only see an unbruised photo of the boy with the text “Sometimes child abuse is only visible to the child suffering it.”
VgZZ TIL that Buddhists see the movie “Groundhog Day” as an illustration of Samsara - the cycle of life, death, and rebirth
Bg8gW TIL "Pride (In the Name of Love)," U2's tribute to Martin Luther King Jr., was originally about Ronald Reagan
AQv4 TIL that the quokka, a completely harmless marsupial, is totally unafraid of humans– to the point that some were once kicked to death by mean-spirited kids in “quokka soccer”.
b9nVN TIL that in 1997, while high on tequila and cocaine, Christian Slater was arrested and sentenced to 3 months in prison after being found guilty of repeatedly punching his girlfriend, biting a man on the chest, and attacking the police officers who came to arrest him.