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TIL The Prime Minister of Canada doesn't have to be a member of parliament, but does need a seat to participate. In the 1925 election Liberal Party leader William Lyon Mackenzie King lost his seat while his party won and "governed from the hallway" before winning a by-election a few weeks later.

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epjN6 TIL about the Dionne quintuplets, the first know quintuplets to survive their infancy. At age 5, the Canadian government made them wards of the Crown. During this time they became a profitable tourist attraction. As adults, they sued the Canadian govt for exploitation, eventually settling for $4m.
ZjkY TIL of Patrice Désilets, the lead creator of the Assassin’s Creed Series, who was fired from Ubisoft twice, with the second after he started work at a new game stuido. Ubisoft bought the studio and fired him for no legitimate reason.
VBpb8 TIL the first African-American automotive company was owned by Frederick Douglass Patterson, who was also the first Black football player at Ohio State University. Frederick was the son of a carriage maker and blacksmith. He transformed his fathers carriage making company into a automotive company.
oLVL TIL That in a 1999 poll of guitarists, Noel Gallagher was voted the most overrated guitarist of the millenium, which was the award he most enjoyed receiving.
VRxk TIL Hulk Hogan choked out talk show host Richard Belzer on live television. Belzer collapsed when Hogan released the hold and smashed his head against the stage. He lost a good bit of blood and required several stitches to close the wound. Belzer later sued Hogan for $5 Million.