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TIL Canada has an entire TV channel completely dedicated to rotisserie chicken

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XEoB6 TIL John Hathorne was the only judge in the Salem Witch Trials never to apologize for his actions. His great-great grandson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, added a W to his last name to distance himself from him.
kODm1 TIL that more than 50% of the oxygen produced on earth is from photosynthesizers in the ocean, such as Prochlorococcus and phytoplankton.
lovDA TIL of the Nazino Affair, a brutal USSR plan in which 6,000 political prisoners and criminals were rounded up and deported to an isolated island in Western Siberia, surrounded by guards and left only with flour. The society soon descended into anarchy and cannibalism; 4,000 died after only a month.
x67d7 TIL that in 1865, former Representative Robert Dale Owen, who had been in favor of women's suffrage, drafted an initial version of the proposed Fourteenth Amendment that did not restrict voting rights to men.
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