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TIL of Tuxedo Stan, a cat that ran for mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was eventually unable to run because of a lack of a birth certificate.

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MeJVm TIL that the Norway national football team is the only team in the world who has played Brazil and never lost, winning two matches and drawing on two other occasions.
1Re7 TIL Pink has no corresponding wavelength, it’s our brains filling in the gap between ultra violet and infra red light in the color spectrum. Put simply, pink is what you get when you remove the color green from white light.
wA1J TIL That even though North and South America are physically joined, there are no roads that connect the two continents.
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OwJY TIL Judge Clarence Thomas once argued that a burning cross should not enjoy First Amendment protection, saying, “There’s no other purpose to the cross, no communication, no particular message. It was intended to cause fear and to terrorize a population.”