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TIL Some animals in Yosemite still carry the Black Plague

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0NEj TIL that Death row inmates in Japan are not being told the date of their execution in advance, but learn only a couple of hours beforehand.
5GZr TIL if Pinocchio were to say “My nose will grow now”, it will create a paradox called the Pinocchio’s paradox.
D5Jv TIL it is possible to travel from Portugal to Vietnam solely by train: at 17,000 kilometres, this is the longest train journey in the world
o0YL TIL With less then 24 hours notice before the 2014 Olympics Hockey final Canada vs Sweden, Alberta changed the liquor law to allow bars to open at 5 am and serve liquor so people could watch the game at the bar.
WZKN TIL i learned firefighters would use dynamite to extinguish fires. Dynamite thrown directly into the flame causes all the oxygen to ignite instantaneously, therefore starving the fire so it goes out.