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TIL that Ontario has a massive “border wall” of edible rabies vaccine baits to prevent rabid animals from entering from the US. The recent outbreak of rabies came from a raccoon from southeastern NY who came via truck or train.

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yQ6nJ TIL Guatemala had a 36+ year long civil war during which the government committed mass genocide against the Maya. The military chief became the first person to be convicted of ordering forced disappearances and the president the first former head of state to be tried for genocide by his own country.
koPd TIL the Canadian Foreskin Awareness Program is known as CAN-FAP
7VZ TIL that 60 percent of the US deficit by 2019 will be a result of the Bush-era tax cuts.
Ebgp TIL that the coldest place in the known universe is in a laboratory right here on Earth.
jN0la TIL that computers apparently might not be adding to our productivity nearly as much as a lot of inventions from the 1800s...apparently things like running water were a MASSIVE deal. Saved people like 8 hours of labor a week.