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TIL The first Canadian casualties in Afghanistan after 9/11 were caused by an American F-16 dropping a bomb on a Canadian military exercise.

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4kE65 TIL that in the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the total number of deaths, including deaths from cancer due to radiation exposure, is 1.
R6p7 TIL the Great Extinction that wiped out most life 65.5 million years ago was precipitated by 5 degree C warming over 1000 years. This rate is 10 times slower than that of the last 100 years.
KYOXR TIL in 1272 the theft of a cow in the town of Ciney led to a 6 years war and thousand of death
BQAy TIL despite having created one of the largest fast food franchises, Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas decided to go back to school and earn his GED in 1993 at the age of 61. His GED class voted him Most Likely to Succeed.
WkVv4 TIL an underground street artist movement that began in Texas known as "Knitta Please" and artists simply known as Knittas. They used knitting in place of spray paint for graffiti tagging. Their was to make street art "warm and fuzzy."