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TIL Prostitution is legal in Canada

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wLQr7 TIL a Texas man nearly died after being bitten by a rattlesnake that he decapitated with a shovel. The snake's head bit down on his hand, 10 minutes after being removed from its body, after he reached down to move it with a stick.
0dPkM TIL Uranium and Plutonium are named after Uranus and Pluto
wLya8 TIL that while Issac Newton was essentially quarantined at his home when Cambridge was closed in 1665 due to the Plague, he discovered the groundwork for his theories of calculus and the laws of motion.
RGOw TIL Saddam Hussein kept a torture chamber in the basement of the Iraqi mission on the Upper East Side of NYC across the street from Michael Bloomberg’s house. People who died there had their bodies mailed back to Iraq in diplomatic shipments.
Yg6x TIL that Wikipedia is about as accurate as Encyclopaedia Britannica.