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TIL After phasing out coal power plants, Toronto has been smog free for the first time in over a decade.

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GAXb4 TIL that an assassination attempt made on James Bond in Casino Royale (1953), was based on a real such failed bomb attack on Franz Von Papen the Vice Chancellor of Germany. Papen survived because the trees he was around, took the blast impact.
QbOk TIL in a German village called Fuggerei the rent hasn’t been raised since 1520, it costs only 88 cents to live there for an entire year.
PgGw TIL at the start of the Civil War, General Robert E. Lee said “I look upon secession as anarchy…but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?”
mxpBP TIL of Melodic Intonation Therapy. Often after a stroke or other types of aphasia, people are unable to speak. It has been found that the they often still have the ability to sing.
YKaG TIL at an Amazon warehouse in PA, during hot summers the company would station paramedics outside to carry away fainting employees, instead of paying for A/C