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TIL In 1910, Canada tried to attract settlers with its campaign "The Last Best West" to promote free land with the slogan "Living is cheap; climate is good; education and land are free.” More than two million settlers from Europe and the US poured into the prairies from 1896 to 1914

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BrKyb TIL of Joy Milne who claimed that she smelled a distinct odor in patients with Parkinson's disease like her husband. She sniffed 6 shirts from people with Parkinson’s and 6 from healthy controls and identified 7 had it. 8 months later the "healthy" patient she "misidentified" was diagnosed as well.
PLYJ TIL Bill Gates can leap over an office chair from a standing position
yQWbe TIL about the Ghost Camaro. During the Bosnian War, a 1979 Chevy Camaro was updated with state of the art equipment by US Military and was used to take much needed supplies to civilians.
oYG7 TIL: Detroit Fire Department is so underfunded they use soda cans filled with loose change as fire alarms
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