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TIL there's a monument dedicated for Diethyl Ether in Boston, Massachusetts

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v1Bj8 TIL that the staff of the 9/11 memorial place white roses on the names of any victims who would have been celebrating a birthday
nWEpr TIL, from March to July in 2018, an arctic fox was tracked walking 4,350 km across the sea ice from Norway to Greenway to Canada averaging 47 km per day, eventually settling on Ellesmere Island. It provided evidence on how arctic species remain connected even when scattered across islands.
N7Ya1 TIL the UK almost transitioned away from a first-past-the-post voting system to an alternative voting system in 2011
BbyL TIL that the Russians dropped booby-trapped toys on Afghanistan so that Afghan children without arms or legs wouldn’t be able to fight the Soviets in the future
nW4Jd TIL about the 1986-87 Conflict between Chad and Libya is known as the 'Toyota War' due to sheer number of Toyotas used by Chad in the conflict. It is the only car brand with a war named after it.