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TIL 50% of Canadians Live South of The Red Line

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QJjBL TIL that male octopuses mate using a specialized arm called a hectocotylus that is sometimes (depending on species) torn off and presented to the female. There are even species that have two hectocotylized arms.
pYY9Q TIL that in 1930 there were 32,000 speakeasies operating in New York City due to Prohibition
jdZN TIL that a white mailman was murdered in Mississippi in 1963 while walking to the governor’s mansion to deliver a letter condemning segregation.
178W TIL that Canada was the third country to legalize same-sex marriage, after the Netherlands (2000) and Belgium (2003).
gMbOA TIL in 1920 a young American woman found a financial sponsor though a newspaper, traveled to France, and learned how to become a stunt pilot. She returned to the US as the first woman in the country to hold a pilots license. She was of African and Native American descent.