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TIL There is a federal judge in Ohio named John Adams, who replaced a judge before him named George Washington

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g9xy TIL that Canada has no national rule on sewage treatment, and dumps a staggering amount of human excrement, toxins and pharmaceuticals directly into rivers and the ocean
jNbPQ TIL that Mother Teresa was a horrible person. The patients in her institutes suffered from a shortage of food, painkillers, and even basic care. The conditions in her missions were once compared to a concentration camp. And all this while, she raised millions of dollars.
x6yRb TIL that US President Theodore Roosevelt pets included: a small bear, a lizard, 5 guinea pigs, a pig, a badger, a blue macaw, a hen, a one-legged rooster, a hyena, a barn owl, a rabbit; and a pony
E1EOp TIL a beaver "named ‘Geronimo,' was dropped again and again" by parachute to test a radical beaver relocation plan. Geronimo's success led to the relocation of 76 beavers via parachute. Geronimo had priority reservation on the first ship into the hinterland, and three young females went with him.
GYN7N TIL 70 percent of the world’s Macadamia Nuts came from one tree in Australia. All of Hawaii’s macadamias share distinctive markers with a tiny wild grouping of trees in Gympie, suggesting that all of the state’s modern crops were likely cloned out of a single Australian tree.