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TIL The French government blew up the flagship of the environmental activist group Greenpeace, killing a photographer in the process.

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KYl59 TIL When fire fighting foam damaged 734,465 volumes in the Russian Academy of Sciences the government put out a radio appeal for citizens to dry them in their homes, this saved 93% of them
Kk4G TIL Andrew Jackson’s pet parrot was thrown out of Jackson’s funeral for cursing too much
E18Mx TIL in 1970, television anchorwoman Christine Chubbuck announced, "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in gore and guts in living color, you're about to see another first - an attempted suicide." Then she pulled out a gun and fatally shot herself in the head.
aagN TIL: The red kangaroo breeds all year round. The females have the unusual ability to delay birth of their baby until their previous Joey has left the pouch. This is called embryonic diapause.
yQdAM Til that 150k+ First Nation kids were removed from their homes, over a span of 100 years, in order to "get rid of the Indian problem in Canada"