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TIL: Mourning a Dog Can Be Harder Than Mourning a Person

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mxBDE TIL That my country Canada interred over 90% of Japanese Canadians residing in British Columbia during WWII. The majority of these 22,000 people were Canadian by birth. Measures were paid for in part by seizure and sale of the property of those interred and were not lifted until 1949.
GYpkG TIL that the landlocked country of Mongolia has a navy with only one vessel with a strength of seven men, one of whom can swim
1ap57 TIL that iron smelting was independently discovered in West Africa by 1000 BCE
OGeM4 TIL that drinking beer has been shown to reduce the risk of certain kidney stones
0xZN TIL The SEC was repeatedly and explicitly warned about the Madoff Ponzi scheme for 10 years by a forensic accountant. Over and over again they ignored the warnings and did nothing.