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TIL All four Stanley Cup Finals Riots are associated with Canadian Team and happened in Canada

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wlV7 TIL Hamburg, Germany has over 2400 bridges, which is more than London, Amsterdam and Venice put together.
VM9Pm TIL that during his research on heroin addicts for the film "Trainspotting" (1996), Ewan McGregor considered taking the drug, but decided not to. (Neon. p. 103)
M7JrB TIL Children with an actively engaged father perform much better in school, some data shows that they are 33% percent less likely to repeat a class and 43% more likely to get As in school.
k0EW TIL Art Scholl - the pilot hired to do in-flight camera work for Top Gun - died filming the scene leading to Goose’s death. His plane spun through its recovery altitude, at which time he radioed “I have a problem… I have a real problem”. The film is dedicated to his memory.
rN9ox TIL: Earlier this year, Connecticut lawmakers are finally deciding to exonerate victims of the witch trials 375 years ago posthumously following exonerations of convicted witches from Massachusetts and Scotland last year.