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TIL The Confederation Bridge, the longest ice-covered water crossing bridge in the world spans a 12.9 km

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loRXK TIL About the Bath School disaster, also known as the Bath School massacre, was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe on May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan. The attacks killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and 6 adults, and injured at least 58 other people.
ep0an TIL: Concrete is the second-most-used substance on earth after water.
LkDGd TIL Women and free African Americans could vote in New Jersey from 1776 to 1807, ~140 years before women gained suffrage nationwide.
YBAW TIL that Scientology uses the same strategy as Chinese spies to deflect criticism
7rokL TIL Keanu Reeves was initially offered Val Kilmer's role in the 1995 film Heat. He turned it down to play Hamlet in a 789 seat theatre in Manitoba.