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TIL that Ohio and Michigan once went to war over Toledo

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Zyr4 TIL serial killer Carl Panzram would rape his male victims not because he was homosexual but because he wanted to establish dominance over them.
ZgwR TIL that after the “Miracle on the Hudson”, where an Airbus A320 ditched into the Hudson River after colliding with a flock of geese, the US Department of Agriculture and Wildlife services gassed 1,235 Canadian Geese and coated 1,739 of their eggs in corn oil to suffocate the offspring.
mxG4R TIL in parts of India, coconut tree climbers earn more money than software engineers.
b5rj TIL. Russia implemented prohibition for 11 years, from 1914 to 1925. The ban was enacted even though roughly 1/3 of the government’s entire revenue came through the sale of vodka. It was called “…the single greatest act of national heroism. ”
v1kEK TIL Any PCT filed patents are also valid and enforced in North Korea as it ratified the Paris Convention on July 8, 1980.