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

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Oo16L TIL the dull side of nonstick tinfoil is the nonstick side
wN78 TIL in 1957 Elvis asked his audience at a Seattle concert to please rise for the national anthem. He picked up his guitar, leaned in, shook his hips and began his biggest hit “You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog.” The crowd went wild. A 15-year old Jimmy Hendrix was there.
G8mg TIL before his suicide, composer Jeremiah Clarke flipped a coin to decide whether to hang or drown himself. After the coin landed on its side, he went home and shot himself instead.
m15pP TIL Monotremes are a very strange order of mammals that lay eggs but nurse their young with milk. Living members are only echidnas and platypuses.
neVvG TIL During the US Civil War, General Sherman implemented the scorched earth policy by having his men pile all deed books in front of the courthouse and burn them. The logic was that the big plantations would not be able to prove land ownership.