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TIL The canaries sent down into mines to detect gas weren't sacrificed but placed in a device to revive them when they succumbed to the dangerous gases.

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nev6Y TIL Hawaii is made up of hundreds of islands that span 1500 miles, not just the 8 that most people know
E1DrX TIL one of the oldest statues in Bern, Switzerland is of a guy eating babies, and nobody really knows why it’s there.
5YEa8 TIL that more than 27 million Americans went hunting in 2016 and that it generates nearly $3.5 billion yearly in federal, state and local taxes.
Y791B TIL the Summer Olympic Games featured fine arts competitions from 1912 until 1948. Artists could compete in the categories of architecture, painting, sculpture, literature and music.
R5be8 TIL Canadians coming back from Cornwall Island have to go through Canadian Border Services Agency, without ever having left Canada, because the road checkpoint is on the mainland and not on the island itself.