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TIL canaries were used in coal mines to detect carbon monoxide

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graB4 TIL in October 2005 a woman hanged herself in a tree near a residential road and was mistaken as a Halloween decoration for over 3 hours
QJpxk TIL that Churchill, Manitoba has a prison that holds Polar bears. The facility has a capacity for 28 inmates and has held over 2000 mighty white bears over the years. And no, its not as cruel as it sounds.
ZKxa TIL: In Arkansas you can legally catch and keep a wild fox
P1Y8g TIL that because Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle's B25 took off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet to bomb Tokyo in 1942, he was honorarily authorized to wear gold Naval Aviator Wings in uniform.
rQ8o TIL a failed experiment of an 18 year old English chemist in search of a treatment for malaria in 1856 produced one of the world’s first synthetic dyes for the color purple, which severely impacted economic trade as some natural dyes were major commodities more valuable than silver or gold