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TIL Canada became the first country in the world to ban the sale, advertising and import of baby walkers in 2004.

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6EObX TIL that the Soviets realised that the Americans and British were developing an atomic bomb when they noticed that Western scientists had ceased publishing papers on nuclear science. Correctly guessing that nuclear science had been made a state secret, they began their own program
X9Bk TIL: Scientists have found evidence indicating a huge underground reservoir that holds three times as much water as Earth’s Oceans
16KM8 TIL: Ernesto Miranda, Namesake of the Miranda Rights, Sold Autographed 'Miranda Cards' with the Warning Text for $1.50 Each in Phoenix After His 1972 Parole, Later Found Dead with Cards on His Body After a 1976 Bar Fight Stabbing
DyeD TIL In 2013, Russian artist and activist Petr Pavlensky sat down naked in Red Square and pounded a nail through his scrotum and into the cobblestone street. He called it a “metaphor of apathy, political indifference, and fatalism of Russian society.”
MekDK TIL female lumberjacks are called lumberjills