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TIL the first ever NBA game was played in Canada, on Nov.1, 1946, between the Knicks and the Toronto Huskies at Maple Leaf Gardens.

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BrLEd TIL Goldfish can suffer an internal bacteria infection in the kidneys. In the late stages of dropsy, a goldfish will have a swollen belly so severe that its scales are raised outwards and most cases at this point are terminal
mx1v TIL that natural gas doesn’t actually have a smell - the ‘smell’ of a gas leak is actually mercaptan, which is added to warn people of leaking gas.
7k8b TIL a man called 68 fast food restaurants claiming to be a cop and convinced the restaurant manager to strip teenage employees. He convinced one manager to slap the buttocks of the victim. McDonald’s publicly blamed the victims.
loAnA TIL of the Mosquito machine and ringtone. The machine emits a high-pitched buzz that drives away loiterers and can be tuned to be heard only by teens. The ringtone, created by sampling the machine tone, uses the same buzz to make phones ring without being heard by teachers or another adults.
l7MJa TIL the song Jeremy by Pearl Jam is a real story about Jeremy Wade Delle who committed suicide in front of his class on January 8, 1991. His death wasn't more than a paragraph in local news Eddie Vedder said that he felt "the need to take that small article and to give it more importance."