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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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R74Jl TIL in the late 19th century, the Sears catalog used to offer a heroin kit, two vials of heroin included, for only $1.50 - slightly less than 50 2019 dollars.
VBYeG TIL there is a town in brazil called Santa Maria de Jetibá is, where the people still speak solely East Pomeranian in their day-to-day life.
1aXn8 TIL squeezing pimples in areas of your face can get you a brain infection.
p8gLZ TIL that the earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the 15th century and none before that.
x64R5 TIL in 1978, a researcher played a deceased elephant’s calls from a hidden speaker. Her family responded by frantically searching and calling out for her, with the daughter continuing for days. Moved by their grief, the researcher decided never to repeat the experiment.