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TIL Canada has a specifically banned members of the Westboro Baptist Church from entering the country.

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e0xY5 TIL Kit Harrington, the actor who plays Jon Snow, is related to John Harington, the man who invented the first flushable toilet.
x6pEo TIL Pakistan accidentally took down Youtube for the entire globe in 2008 in an attempt to block it
6EnWZ TIL "The Way" by Fastball, a classic 90's jam, is about an old couple with Alzheimer's that died while driving from TX to AR.
9wJxr TIL Thomas Boylan built a cabin out of dinosaur bones in Wyoming in 1932. He died in 1947 and the cabin has since been offered for sale.
OoDw1 TIL about Lt Commander Joseph Vaghi. He was an US Beachmaster during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, acting as a "traffic cop" orienting the landing troops. Giving orders under heavy machine gun fire, he ran into an old classmate, who asked him, "Hi Joe, what the hell are you doing here?"