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TIL that the Rhinoceros Party was a registered party in Canada led by Cornelius, a rhinoceros, and promised to repeal the law of gravity and change Canada’s currency to bubble gum, so it could be inflated or deflated at will.

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6NaY Til There are over 750 episodes of “Pokémon.” That’s about 50 a year for 16 years straight.
awmK9 TIL about the Arbëreshë people, an ethnic albanian minority in Italy who came escaping the Ottoman conquest of Albania between 700 and 300 years ago
dv5E TIL of the Stacks Project. It is an open-source textbook with ~4700 pages, made by many mathematicians with the intention of collecting all the prerequisite knowledge required to understand an extremely abstract mathematical object known as ‘algebraic stack’.
wLvw6 TIL an off duty border patrol agent started an Arizona wildfire by shooting a crate of explosives in dry grass. The gender reveal party started a wildfire that consumed 47,000 acres and cost 8.2million USD to put out.
YpK8A TIL Charles Joseph Minard was French Civil engineer and pioneer of info-graphics. Minard is famous for his flow graphs, one notably showing the trade of French wine. Information designer Edward Tufte said his map of the French invasion of Russia, "may well be the best statistical graphic ever drawn"