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TIL that if you are an Australasian citizen and your passport is lost/stolen you can visit a Canadian consul for a temporary passport.

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Mel1A TIL about Christopher Knight, a man that left his normal life at 20 years old to become a hermit. He lived in the wilderness, completely alone, for 27 years. He was apprehended only in 2013, after committing over a 1000 burglaries.
OBLX TIL that a Royal Navy officer sentenced to death at Sachsenhausen concentration camp managed to shoot dead the commander of his firing squad using the man’s own pistol.
v1YmK TIL 20 years ago, someone impaled a 60 pound pumpkin on the top of a spire at Cornell University in the middle of the night. It was over 170 feet off the ground. To this day, no one is really sure how this was accomplished without anyone noticing....
9DNB TIL of Samuel Whittemore, the oldest known colonial combatant in the American Revolutionary War. At the age of 78, after killing two British soldiers, Samuel was shot in the face, bayoneted numerous times, and left for dead in a pool of blood. Samuel lived another 18 years.
rRZO4 TIL: Eric Dolphy died in Berlin becuase Dr's took a stereotypical view that, as a black jazz musician, he would be a junkie (he was actually a teetotaler, and a Diabetic)