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TIL that Kevin Vickers is not the first Canadian parliamentary Sergeant-at-Arms to stop a killing spree. In 1984, Quebec’s René Marc Jalbert went unarmed to the scene of a massacre in the National Assembly and persuaded the gunman to surrender

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7rojX TIL A familiar stranger is a stranger who is nonetheless recognised by another from regularly sharing a common physical space such as a street or bus stop, but with whom one does not interact.
RKdj TIL that there are about a hundred thousand people in Greece who still worship pre-Christian gods
4kymJ TIL the draining of Lake Agassiz 9,500 years ago may have raised sea levels up to 1M worldwide in a year, creating global flood myths.
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