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TIL that the US federal government in general does not permit children under age 14 to work, but it outlines a handful of exceptions -- and one of the jobs that is expressly permitted is the oddly specific "gathering evergreens and making evergreen wreaths."

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0BG5 TIL the man that shot the attacker at Canadian Parliament in 2014, Sgt-At-Arms Kevin Vickers, did so by diving through a doorway, flipping around to face upwards, and firing at the shooter while still in mid-air. He is reported to have said “I put him down”.
6EGyw TIL that a rattlesnakes rattler is made from skin shed during molting. They start with one “button” (which is made of the same material as our fingernails), and add each time it molts.
QJwYM TIL a 300' fire tornado ravaged an area in Japan during a earthquake in 1923.
0ooR TIL that in 2012 two 18-year-old students discovered that some bacteria can be cultured to target the base chemicals that make up plastics, thus advancing the search for plastics-destroying microbes.
woZo6 TIL that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital was founded by a comedian. He was struggling financially and vowed that if he ever became successful, he’d build a shrine to the patron saint of hopeless causes.