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TIL Parts of Canada are missing some gravity.

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VMvOB TIL That Russia had fair elections in 1917 and the Bolsheviks lost to the Socialist Revolutionary Party, but the Bolsheviks shortly stripped the Constituent Assembly of it's power and implemented their own one-party rule.
KYlmQ TIL: The Cia Cia language, an Austroniasian language spoken in Buton, an island in Indonesia, is written in the Korean alphabet (Hangul).
mxm0O TIL A feral pig ransacked a campsite and drank at least 18 cans of beer before getting into an altercation with a cow in Australia.
0d46M TIL Alexander Hamilton was the first major American politician publicly involved in a sex scandal. He had an affair with 23-year-old Maria Reynolds, whose husband was aware of the infidelity and likely orchestrated the whole thing to regularly extort blackmail money from Hamilton.
ge88 TIL of the “Navy eReader Device”, or NeRD, an e-reader developed by the United States Navy’s General Library Program for use aboard U.S. Navy submarines