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TIL that poisoned Halloween candy is mostly urban legend and there haven’t be any deaths as a result of stranger poisoning.

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yVgal TIL that “Shanghaiing” was the practice in the 18th and 19th centuries of kidnapping men to become sailors on board ships, due to laws that imprisoned people for leaving a ship before the voyage was done
9wMWp TIL Alberta, Canada has the highest HDI Score of any region in North America. It is also only beaten globally by the countries of Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. (HDI measures things like Literacy, Education, Life Expectancy and Income)
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