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TIL Canada has the highest levels of greenhouse gas emissions per capita in the world. Higher than the United States and China.

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X0Gn6 TIL that doctors use nitroglycerin as a medicinal drug because it's a vasodilator. Applications of this drug are heart failure, hypertension and angina pectoris among others
0dMN5 TIL that slavery was legal in New Jersey during the Civil War. The 1860 census listed 43 slaves in the state, and the last slaves were not freed until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.
0d1b1 TIL that England's High Court of Chivalry hasn't sat since 1954, and that was the first time since 1737. Before it heard the case in 1954, the Court had to rule whether or not it still existed.
Y7E4Z TIL that the new Superman is the grandson of the first Choose Your Own Adventure author, Edward Packard.
rRLye TIL of the Tibetan blackbird, living in the Himalayas. As a type of bird called a thrush its genus classification is "Turdus" (Latin for "thrush"). And since the Tibetan blackbird is larger than the common blackbird, it has been given the species name "Turdus Maximus."