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TIL Canada has banned members of the Westboro Baptist Church from entering their country due to hate speech.

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wL596 TIL that Dante Basco, who played Rufio in Hook, is the voice actor for Prince Zuko in Avatar the Last Airbender
699vQ TIL: The Post-World War II hyperinflation of Hungary held the record for the most extreme monthly inflation rate ever – 41.9 quadrillion percent (4.19 × 1016%; 41,900,000,000,000,000%) for July 1946, amounting to prices doubling every 15.3 hours.
NrNP TIL Johnny Cash was the first radio operator to receive the news of Joseph Stalin’s death.
l7JOV TIL that every employee at the Hanford Engineer Works in Richland, WA donated one day's worth of their pay to purchase a B-17 bomber, as their contribution to the WW2 effort. The plane was christened 'Day's Pay' and flew over 60 missions in Germany
OGV86 TIL that when it comes to natural disasters, Michigan is the safest state in the US.