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VM5Zm TIL former NHL goalie Gilles Gratton believed he was an executioner who stoned people to death in a past life and was fated to be a goalie as punishment.
epO75 TIL that Charles Darwin conducted excavations at Stonehenge in 1877 to test his hypothesis that earthworm bioturbation is largely responsible for the continual sinking and burial of surface objects across the world.
dDWeQ TIL that on November 16, 1776, the tiny island country of Sint Eustatius became the first foreign government to officially recognize the United States of America, firing a salute to an American brig
8eeGa TIL of the term Euphemism Treadmill: As words turn into a pejorative they get replaced by other words that turn into a pejorative
yQdAM Til that 150k+ First Nation kids were removed from their homes, over a span of 100 years, in order to "get rid of the Indian problem in Canada"