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TIL there was a halfpenny

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VZrm TIL the last legal duel in Canada was between two men for the love of a local schoolteacher.
XExvD TIL the scientific name of the European ground squirrel is Spermophilus - "Seed Lover"
Ool0g TIL there is a building in Dubai called the Torch that caught fire three times between 2015 and 2019.
j6wja TIL despite the PS3 being out for four months by then, God of War 2 (2007) was released only for the PS2. Studio Santa Monica's justification to the Sony heads for doing this were that they wouldn't have to play catch-up to be PS3 compatible, and a PS2 release was accessible to far more people.
a16y TIL the US Navy shot down a civilian airliner en route to Dubai from Tehran in 1988, killing 290 people, in Iranian airspace and waters.