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TIL Hall of famer Red Kelly won 2 out of his 8 Stanley Cups while also serving as a Member of Parliament in Canada.

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epNmk TIL about Peter Winston, a chess prodigy, who - having posted a peak rating of 2285 and, aged only 14, beaten US Champion Walter Browne in 37 moves! - was last seen on January 26, 1978 and disappeared without a trace just before the Great New York blizzard of 1978 hit the East Coast.
Kpj9 TIL the bird Americans call a “turkey” is called an India in Turkey, and a Peru in Portugese.
dZN7 TIL A Bahraini Princess eloped with an American Marine she met in a shopping mall.
xVAM0 TIL that one acre of hemp can produce as much paper (including toilet paper!) as four acres of trees.
OGLXg Today I learned that in 1962 a man bought a deserted island in the Seychelles and planted 16000 trees, reintroduced 120 giant turtles and hundreds of birds turning the island into a protected national park