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TIL that crawfish don’t have brains. What people actually suck out their heads is a the hepatopancreas, which is similar to eating foie gras

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ajEZ TIL of the Clay Belt, a large area suitable for farming in northern Ontario and Quebec. Although land is free for use and very fertile, settlement attempts repeatedly failed; one farmer gave up because “there are seven months of snow, two months rain, and all the rest is black flies and mosquitoes”.
LMvd TIL that the State of Georgia was originally colonized with three prohibitions: no alcohol, no slavery, and no Catholics.
yQxLe TIL of a rare variation of the game of checkers named Canadian Checkers - the board is 12x12 with 144 squares (as opposed to the European standard 10x10/100 square board)
14OX TIL Rosa Parks sued Outkast for defamation for using her name in a song title. Outkast eventually settled by creating educational programs on Parks’ impact on America
jDGN TIL when the Confederate army surrendered in 1865, a Union cannonade was fired in celebration but General Grant ordered it to stop saying “The war is over. The rebels are our countrymen again.