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TIL: The Canadian Flag is only 50 years old.

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Xklr TIL that an artist had her stolen computer with her work retrieved but her photos were corrupted. She loved the result and created a gallery with the corrupted pictures, dedicating it to the thief
pYore TIL in 1897 when British railway pioneer Magnus Volk wanted to extend his railway line to Rottingdean, he created the "Daddy Long Legs", a unique electric tram atop four 23' tall legs that ran on tracks submerged in the ocean. At high tide it moved at "a very slow walking pace."
4kEBg TIL that when bears hibernate, they "hold it in" for almost half a year. This is due to a fecal plug that forms in their lower intestine that prevents them from pooping while hibernating.
o8Wr TIL in 1960 the heir to the Coors beer fortune was abducted and murdered
KNWJ TIL of Michael Cicconetti, a judge in Ohio who uses what he calls “creative justice”. He sentences guilty defendants with unusual punishments, such as forcing a woman who abandoned her kittens to spent a winter night outdoors.