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TIL Canada was almost invaded in 1873 by an army of angry Minnesotans

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J1Rlj TIL that during the Cold War, the CIA launched operation codenamed 'Aedinosaur' during which they sent thousands of balloons carrying copies of George Orwell's Animal Farm into Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.
Demp TIL - That vibrators are illegal in Alabama.
nev4Y TIL A Minnesota man once sprayed toilet-papering teens on his property, with a squirt gun full of fox urine
W7Ya8 TIL about MS St. Louis, a refugee ship that left Hamburg in May 1939 carrying a load of passengers, most of them Jewish refugees bound for Cuba. They were subsequently turned away by Cuba, the US, and Canada. The ship was forced to dock at Antwerp, and the passengers divvied up to various countries.
Z81r4 Today I Learned that the Exxon Valdez disaster led to the creation of Credit Default Swaps, the financial instrument that massively contributed to the Global Financial Crisis.