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TIL that the movie Soylent Green was set in 2022.

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9Yvxr TIL that in 1943, Canada declared the maternity ward of Ottawa Civic Hospital extraterritorial. This was done so that the newborn Princess Margriet of the Netherlands would derive her Dutch citizenship from her mother. The royal family had fled to Canada three years prior due to the Nazi occupation.
jNnAn TIL around 140000 men were convicted under Paragraph 175, a law in German Criminal Code penalising homosexuality that lasted from 1871 to... 1994. Also, "criminals" that were in Nazi camps due to their homosexuality, weren't released from camps after liberation and their "sentence" were still valid.
PYGjE TIL The Prime Minister of Canada doesn't have to be a member of parliament, but does need a seat to participate. In the 1925 election Liberal Party leader William Lyon Mackenzie King lost his seat while his party won and "governed from the hallway" before winning a by-election a few weeks later.
vRVr TIL That Hartlepool F.C. have a monkey as their mascot after the town supposedly mistook one for a french spy and hung it
g17X TIL that Josh Morgan (wide reciever for the Washington Redskins) survived the Virginia Tech shooting while a student there, and his mother survived both the 2001 pentagon terrorist attacks and yesterday’s DC navy yard shootings while working at or near both locations.