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TIL that the northernmost Grain Silo in Canada is in northern Alberta and only 200 km from the border from the Northwest Territories.

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XoYE TIL a man wearing a nylon jacket and wool shirt built up 40,000 volts of static electricity, resulting in burned carpets, melted plastic, and a massive evacuation.
9Abm TIL that Timothy Tyler was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole at 25, for selling LSD to a police informant.
W598 TIL, Theodore Roosevelt referred to Thomas Paine, who came up with the terms “United States of America,” as a “filthy little atheist.”
W75OY TIL in 1903, Serbia’s unpopular King Alexander and Queen Draga Mašin were brutally assassinated in their bedroom. The autocratic king had suspended the constitution multiple times, and the couple was loathed by the public and military. Their bodies were tossed from a balcony in piles of manure.
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