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TIL Caroline Dhavernas (from Hannibal and Wonderfalls) is the voice of Montreal REM metro train network. Her mother, Michèle Deslauriers, was the previous voice.

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6OZm TIL that Professional Sumo wrestling in Japan has been dominated by Mongolian wrestlers for nearly 20 years.
nW4o9 TIL Stephern Hawking and his daughter, Lucy, published 5 children’s fiction books together
d8ja7 TIL that after decades of Florida’s convoluted fireworks law that supposedly made them illegal (but allowed the sale for unlikely purposes, which purchasers would sign “official” forms attesting to), fireworks are now legal for all residents on New Year’s and the Fourth of July.
b69J0 TIL "Project Fantasia" that the US tried to scare the Japanese in WWII with glow in the dark foxes.
nZdd TIL that attempts were made to create a Human-Chimpanzee hybrid through artificial insemination of female chimpanzees in 1960s China. The experiment reportedly achieved pregnancy but was cut short by the Cultural Revolution.