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TIL that of Canada’s history with slavery. Indigenous people made up TWO THIRDS of the slaves in Canada.

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jNPJQ TIL in 1973 the USA helped overthrow the elected democratic socialist president Allende in Chile and replaced it with a dictatorship
QvDa TIL Christopher Tolkien, son of Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, has said of the films, “They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25”..[..]..“The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing.”
Z8v9Q TIL the UK has their own version of the Ivy League called the Golden Triangle which has some of the best colleges in the world
Y765A TIL that Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower shooter, requested an autopsy to discover the cause of his violent behavior. The autopsy revealed a tumor pressing on his amygdala, which might have influenced his actions.
a19o TIL That men receive a 63% longer prison sentence then women for the same crime.