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TIL people in Churchhill, Manitoba(Canada), never lock their car doors in case anyone has to escape polar bears.

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7eOr TIL: Being ordered to death by Mark Antony, Cicero’s last words to his executioner were, “There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.”
V6Qk TIL that the 8 year old Afghani skateboarder on the front page was killed in a suicide attack on September 8th, 2012. Here is the news update from the school.
AnLd TIL that in 1934, Georgia Tech’s football team refused to play against Michigan if a black player named Willis Ward took the field. One of Ward’s friends and fellow players was then-future president Gerald Ford, who threatened to quit if Ward was benched.
rNaNW TIL about Chesterton’s Fence- the rule of thumb that says one shouldn’t alter, destroy, or remove something established and present- whether a physical object or structure, or something more abstract like laws, rules, and traditions- without first understanding why it’s there in the first place.
R5Kva TIL about Cargill, the largest company in the USA, that NGO Mighty Earth reported "the worst company in the world" that drives "the most important problems facing our world"