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TIL The first YMCA in Montreal was built in 1873 at Victoria Square, then moved to Dominion Square, where the Sun Life Building now stands, and occupied it from 1873 to 1891.

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xgPw TIL Winston Churchill, along with many of the Royal Navy’s highest ranking men, came very close to death after the ship they were on was fired at by a U-boat with 3 torpedoes. All three struck the hull of the ship, but all failed to explode.
yKBJ TIL Russian scientist successfully cloned a plant that became extinct 30000 years ago (in the Pleistocene age), the plant bore fruit and continued reproducing on it’s own.
vPYZ7 TIL about William English Walling, wealthy grandson of the 1880 Democratic vice presidential candidate who became a trade union socialist and co-founded the NAACP with W.E.B. Du Bois
MeJK7 TIL that Edgar Degas’ statue Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, depicting a Paris “opera rat,” was reviled by critics in 1881 as “repulsive” and “vicious.” Today, the original sculpture is at the National Gallery of Art in D.C., and bronze casts made after his death can be found in many other museums.
wLKkY TIL Bees can recognize and remember human faces and they use the same technique humans do called configural processing, piecing together components of a face to form a recognizable pattern. They can also remember the faces they have seen from different view points.