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TIL The Bloodiest Single Day in the US History was the Battle of Antietam in the Civil War

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d0M8 TIL The original California Constitution was written in both English and Spanish
Jno8 TIL in Canada you can get up to 14 years in prison for telling or suggesting to someone that they should kill themselves but only 5 years if you threaten to kill them yourself (see section 241 & section 264.1 of the criminal code)
1a0L8 TIL the Aussie word Esky (for cooler box or chilly bin) comes from the word Eskimo
yVLQJ TIL that in 1979, Elf, a French oil compagny, lost over $150 million in a scam. Alain de Villegas, a Belgian Count, had led ELF officials to believe that a company had created a machine capable of detecting oil fields from the air. The scandal is known as the "Avions Renifleurs" ("Sniffer Planes").
18J8 TIL The pink cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. were a gift from Japan. In 1912, Japan sent more than 3,000 seeds to be planted near the Potomac River as a symbol of friendship between the two nations.