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TIL of Paul Chartier, a Canadian man who attempted to bomb the Canadian House of Commons in 1966. Unfortunately (for him) the clerk who sold him the Dynamite misremembered the burn time of the fuse, resulting in the bomb prematurely exploding in a bathroom and killing him before he could use it.

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rWB1 TIL: Bob Young, a 1936 Olympian who ran with Jesse Owens, gave Adolf Hitler the finger
AWJo TIL Hercules once tricked Atlas into holding the sky using the old “hold this while I tie my shoes” routine
jNVDj TIL the waters of Lake Michigan are crystal clear thanks to a massive infestation of zebra mussels, who inflict considerable damage to infrastructure and throw the lake's ecosystem out of balance, but also filter pollutants out of the water.
AaQd TIL that plastic bags are banned in certain African countries because people use them as a toilet, then sling them through the air as far away as they can.
gxbb TIL that the octopus is so intelligent, the UK considers them honorary vertebrates for the purposes of animal cruelty laws