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TIL Hedgehogs belong to the order of Eulipotyphla which means "truly fat and blind"

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eByn TIL The light we see from the north star was emitted in the year 1583.
KnXJ TIL Canadian Athlete and amputee, Terry Fox, stricken with cancer, ran across Canada to raise awareness for Cancer research. He ran an astounding 5,373 kilometres (3,339 miles) before having to stop due to his ailments.
KOEZw TIL Dasrath Manjhi spent 1960 to 1982 chiseling away at a mountain, without anyone assisting him, to create a new road which shortened the driving distance to his village by 40 km. He was motivated by the fact that his wife died from being unable to get to a hospital in time.
1gOO TIL that, except under exceptional circumstances, drug testing for employment is not allowed in Canada, because it does not respect the Canadian Human Rights Act.
wLDJ1 TIL a suicide bomber with explosives in his laptop boarded the Somali owned Daallo Airlines in 2016 intending to blow the whole aircraft. Twenty minutes after the takeoff, the bomb exploded, creating a hole in the plane, and the suicide bomber was sucked out of the plane. He was the only fatality.