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TIL that Canada's first historical Thanksgiving meal predated the American one by 43 years.

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d8Z1r TIL that the couple in the Pulitzer-Prize photo “Burst of Joy” divorced within a year and the husband, Robert Stirm, who had spent over five years in a North Vietnamese prison, was forced to give 43% of his retirement to his ex-wife.
Aypn TIL: Spiders curl up when they die because their joints use a hydraulic system which “pushes out” their legs.
4kdV6 TIL that the actor who played Otis in the Andy Griffith Show voiced dozens of cartoon charachters including Goliath from Davey and Goliath and Taurus from Space Angel
9wZ4Q TIL that on May 17, 1947 at Fenway Park a 3lb smelt fell out of the sky and hit Red Sox pitcher Ellis Kinder in the head
16AVP TIL the bow of the USS New York was forged using 7.5 tons of recycled World Trade Center steel