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TIL Canada doesn't have internal free trade

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WkQxN TIL Medieval art depicted characters dying or being killed with unusually calm expressions because it was a common belief that that such a response to death was Christlike, as Jesus did not panic on the cross.
DQYQJ TIL that Mike Tyson had to pay Lennox Lewis $335,000 for biting him on the leg, at their pre-fight press conference.
wPBW TIL that in 1975, NASCAR were invited by Le Mans organizers to race 2 cars at the 1976 24h of Le Mans. They turned out to be surprisingly very fast, but weren’t built for endurance racing and broke down midway through the race.
E1AV TIL that Alexander Graham Bell invented the metal detector in order to find an assassin’s bullet in President James Garfield’s body, but was unsuccessful because the president was lying on a steel spring bed.
g4WW TIL Aerogel (an ultralight material used by NASA) was created by a scientist as the result of a bet whether he could replace the liquid in jellies with gas