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TIL: AN Irish Army once invaded Canada

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GAGG TIL that 16 years after the Choctaw people had experienced the Trail of Tears, they collected a sum of money to send to starving Irish Farmers during the Potato Famine.
18BD TIL that “Chimpanzees, who cannot swim, have drowned in zoo moats trying to save others.” And “Given the chance to get food by pulling a chain that would also deliver an electric shock to a companion, Rhesus monkeys will starve themselves for several days.”
VMpx4 TIL That bugs and some other animals have green blood because they use copper to bind oxygen instead of iron
0vd1 TIL More Americans now die from painkillers than from heroin and cocaine combined
rRQvd TIL During the cremation process of a 500 pound body, the corpse was so obese that it set the crematorium on fire.