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TIL that in the 1970s head transplants were possible

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PYwmg TIL of Paul Chartier, a Canadian man who attempted to bomb the Canadian House of Commons in 1966. Unfortunately (for him) the clerk who sold him the Dynamite misremembered the burn time of the fuse, resulting in the bomb prematurely exploding in a bathroom and killing him before he could use it.
gMlEW TIL that during China's one child policy, 324 million Chinese women were pressured into being surgically fitted with contraceptive devices and 108 million were sterilized
Y7GOP TIL that in medieval Europe, the Church’s emphasis on relics led to the practice of furta sacra, or "holy theft," where churches and monasteries would steal each other's relics believed to hold miraculous powers, thus increasing their own prestige and attracting more pilgrims.
Lk7DV TIL President Calvin Coolidge owned, amongst many other pets, two lions given to him by the Mayor of Johannesburg, South Africa named Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau.
eyO6 TIL when the United States was fighting in World War 2, they asked Mexicans to cross the border to work agricultural jobs.