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TIL there is no law against public photography in Canada; no one can ever be arrested for the simple act of making a picture or film, unless other laws are being broken in the process. Police on duty also have no reasonable expectation of privacy

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l8dN TIL that scientist Niels Bohr was “given a house next door to the Carlsberg brewing company, and had a pipeline running from the brewery into the house so that he could have a never-ending supply of fresh beer on tap”.
P1mNn TIL that a garbage company based out of Mansfield OH, Garbage Guys Who Care, offer pink trashcans to people for breast cancer awareness. They also have pink garbage trucks and donate heavily to breast cancer awareness charities.
kJ1OB TIL: The Church of Satan does not believe in Satan as a deity. They consider themselves “skeptical atheists.”
D1LxV TIL that Mark Hamill voices Master Eraqus and Leonard Nimoy voices Master Xehanort in Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep. The game’s creator, Tetsuya Nomura, cast them because the rivalry between the characters mirrors the rivalry between Star Wars and Star Trek.
VMQEB TIL that the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972-1981, Kurt Waldheim, had been a Nazi officer during WWII. In 1986 it was discovered Jews had routinely been shot near his office during the war. This revelation got him a travel ban from the US.