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TIL that the Montreal bus system has a “between stops” service, allowing women traveling alone late at night to stop between designated bus stops.

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1aQRD TIL Botum Sakor is the largest national park of Cambodia. Only very little on-location research has been done and published on the biodiversity of the area so far and no scientific investigation has ever been carried out for the remote interior of the park. The human population is unknown
epyK4 TIL the characters "Perry the Platypus" and "Knuckles the Echidna" do represent the only two families in the monotremata order. Which means Platypus and Echidna are the only two families of egg-laying mammals on Earth.
m14Rx TIL Helen Viola Jackson who died in December 2020 was the last surviving civil war veteran’s spouse. She was married to someone alive at the time of Abraham Lincoln
gYnD TIL that spider silk is pound for pound stronger than steel, but not as strong as Kevlar.
yQYeJ TIL that Akira Kurosawa was unable to get funding after a series of flops, and only returned to filmmaking after attempted suicide when the Soviet Union enlisted him to make a film set in Russia