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TIL that the Canadian animation studio CINAR, the people behind Arthur and Caillou, was embroiled in a financial scandal that lead to one of the longest criminal trials before a jury in Canadian history

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p8W1p Today I learned that the 19th Amendment (Women's Suffrage) almost wasn't ratified until a Tennessee senator who was against it (Harry Burns) received a letter from his mother telling him to "be a good boy" and vote for ratification. He broke the deadlock the next day and the 19th was ratified.
eBdL TIL That in most of the United States you can be fired from your job for basically no reason and have no legal recourse.
l70e7 TIL Tarantulas can swim and some can even dive in order to catch fish!
vrB TIL Michael Clarke Duncan was The Notorious B.I.G.’s bodyguard, but let a friend take over for him the night Biggie was killed.
d8OYK TIL researchers found that a blood test called PanSeer detected cancer in 95% of patients up to 4 years before they got a conventional cancer diagnosis. The test determines if the DNA in blood plasma was shed by tumours based on precence of particular methyl groups.