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TIL Canada’s longest running military operation involves firing artillery rounds at mountains to trigger avalanches.

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rNKdx TIL the East German border guard who escaped to West Germany during the contruction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 later hanged himself in his orchard
womjo TIL that barbers in the medieval times used to perform surgery and tooth extractions in addition to cutting hair, which is why barber’s poles are red, white, and blue.
oBZxr TIL Michael Jackson’s Thriller went platinum not once, not twice, but thirty-three times
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XND TIL that a Buddha statuette from India was found in Sweden at an excavation of a Viking village