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TIL that crime comics were illegal in Canada until 2018.

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neDgY TIL that Viggo Mortensen recorded six experimental ambient records with Buckethead. This one, Pandemoniumfromamerica, also features three Hobbits (Wood, Monaghan, Boyd) and a reading by Noam Chomsky.
rRjJy TIL that even though the Dodge brothers weren’t Jewish, they used the Star of David as the original logo for the automotive company, not in spite of the anti-Semitic Henry Ford.
KYZ1Q TIL that the term “Artificial Intelligence” was created by scientists John McCarthy, Claude Shannon and Marvin Minsky at the Dartmouth Conference in 1956.
kOlJ1 TIL that the 5th oldest known tree on earth was burned down by a Floridian woman who was smoking meth inside it in 2012
X8dD TIL about Hoda Sharaawi, founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union. She became famous when in 1923 she removed her veil in public, causing outrage with authorities.