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TIL that the northern cardinal doesn't migrate during the winter.

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ALLB TIL that in an attempt to prove to a group of students that the glass in the Toronto-Dominion Centre was unbreakable, Garry Hoy threw himself through a glass wall on the 24th story and fell to his death after the window frame gave way.
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