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TIL It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.

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p8oBG TIL Ontario's Dog Owner's Liability Act ('DOLA') stipulates that a dog owner(s) assumes liability for damages caused by dog bites or attacks. This is strict liability test because it does not depend on an owner's negligence, fault, or the animal's known propensity to act aggressively.
wA97 TIL every Rubik’s Cube can be solved within 20 moves.
EBjP TIL French WWI infantry went into a disastrous battle baa'ing like sheep- they knew they were being sent to the slaughter.
WkKQB TIL in 1955, prominent physicist Qian Xuesen was deported from the United States to China under suspicions of being a communist. He would go on to help China become a nuclear power by 1964, launch a satellite by 1970 and witnessed China's first manned space mission in 2003
Dakj TIL That there are many people who live in Hawaii that refuse to be US citizens. They believe that the USA is occupying their country, and that Hawaii is actually the property of the Hawaiian Kingdom, NOT the USA.