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TIL that Avril Lavigne twice won MVP in a boys' pee-wee hockey league.

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pdoN TIL Peace Arch International Park was designed so that people from Canada and America can get together without the need for passports
GvKQ TIL: More members of Alcoholics Anonymous die from cigarette related illnesses than alcohol. Including one of the co-founders who continued smoking even after needing an oxygen tank to breathe.
RlZQ TIL the Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.
M7Jla TIL of wind catchers, an architectural technology dating back to 500BC Iran to passively cool buildings. Air is drawn in and out of these tall spire like structures through large slotted openings at the top. A stream of water underneath provides evaporatively cooled air which rises through the space
bG8Z TIL a man in Russia domesticated foxes that now sell for $9000. “Curiously, the friendly gene came attached to some other physical genes that made the foxes look like other domestic animals: curly tails, white faces, droopy ears. It took only about 35 years to completely domesticate the species.”