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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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6En7W TIL about Martin Joe Laurello, aka Human Owl and Bobby the Boy with the Revolving Head, a German-American man who could turn his head 180 degrees
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woLN6 TIL each day there are over 100,000 planes flying around the world
wLK1W TIL Tom Cruise turned down the lead roll in The Shawshank Redemption because it was the director's first feature film.
ADrPl TIL of Alice Blunden, a woman who was so knocked out after having ingesting a large amount of poppy tea that a doctor pronounced her dead. She was quickly buried, but exhumed when people could hear her voice from the grave. She was so close to death, she was once again accidentally buried alive.