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TIL every year, Halifax gives a giant christmas tree to the people of Boston in gratitude for Bostons help during Halifax explosion recovery

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xV9Lo TIL that Paris holds an annual contest to find the city’s best baguette. Around 200 bakers each submit two baguettes (must be eligible) to be graded on quality, look, smell, taste, and crunch. The winner wins €4000 and a contract to supply the French president fresh baguettes every day for 1 year.
8ew8b TIL that Dubai's Burj Khalifa has no sewage system - so trucks have to pump out poo every day
PBEL TIL that both sides of the First Congo War ate pygmies “as though they were game animals.”
9YlZp TIL of Transhumanism,an international movement that believes humans are currently in a transition state, and that future biotechnologies will allow us to drastically enhance our physical and cognitive capabilities and to stop biological aging, therefore essentially making us immortal or "transhuman"
R7EG1 TIL in 1995, after the U.S. Congress attempted to deny foreign aid to Turkey, the mayor of Izmir, Turkey banned the sale of Dole bananas, mistakenly believing that then-Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole owned the fruit company.