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TIL Canadian Mounties started off as the North-West Mounted Police to help protect the aboriginal people from destructive American Trappers.

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RyE4 TIL the tallest known mountain in the solar system is on an asteroid.
16Wd4 TIL that the world record for most number of monogamous marriages is held by Glynn Wolfe - he married 31 times (with one marriage being annulled) and had approximately 19 children.
KOOKJ TIL: Karl Marx had terrible personal hygeine and was perpetually covered in sores.
b9QRa TIL That it took over 4 years of development, burned through $35 million in R&D, and partook in 11 academic case studies to create the Steelcase Ergonomic 'Leap' Swivel Chair.
168W8 TIL that when a painting of the mugshot of killer Myra Hindley was displayed at the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1997, Hindley herself wrote from prison to ask for her portrait to be removed, describing it as a sole disregard for the emotional pain experienced by the families of the victims