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TIL that for part of the year Herring breed so voraciously that the shorelines of Alaska become coated in a thick scum of sperm.

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95WX TIL President McKinley was assassinated 113 years ago today. Shot by a crazed Polish anarchist, the the second bullet went through the President’s stomach and lodged near his back. The doctors didn’t find the bullet and McKinley died of gangrene eight days later.
4D96 TIL Canada does not allow Americans to enter their country with a DUI on record.
xVg9b TIL that while filming There Will Be Blood, the director Paul Thomas Anderson tested the pyrotechnical effects of an oil fire, causing an enormous amount of smoke to intrude on the nearby set of No Country For Old Men, filming of No Country For Old men had to be delayed for a day because of this.
JYbQ TIL Peter Norman, the little-known “white guy on the podium", made a major contribution to the 1968 Olympic black rights statement. He went home to Australia a pariah – his career ended by the AOC. He died in 2006 without recognition, buried quietly by his lifelong friends: Cook and Carlos. [Fixed]
WKL9 TIL a non-EU student can, on average, attend a public university in a variety of European countries for under $1500 a year.