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TIL A Native Canadian Tribe has successfully blocked Shell’s oil tar sands expansion with treaty protections signed in 1899

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P7pg TIL that Ernest Hemingway killed himself, and so did his father, sister, brother and other relatives.
nENo TIL that EA had to replace their cover athlete for ‘NHL 2004’ not once, but twice as their original choice was found to have assaulted a cop and their other choice killed his teammate in a car accident.
0d0kv TIL there are more atoms in a single human cell than there are cells in the average human body (~100 trillion atoms vs ~33 trillion cells).
57n8 TIL of the European Working Time Directive. It is illegal to average more than 48hrs of work per week. A minimum of 20 days holiday pa and payment in lieu of holiday not allowed.
b6XQp TIL In 2021 a new species of fish was identified that has the smallest adult brain size of all known vertebrates. It's also the loudest of all known fish relative to its size.