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TIL Canada's new 10-dollar note features Viola Desmond, a black woman and civil rights activist from Nova Scotia. She is known as Canada's Rosa Parks for her refusal to leave a whites-only section of a theatre.

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1a84O TIL the Rod of Asclepius, a snake winding around a stick and international symbol of medicine, represents the treatment for the bloodworm Dracunculus. This worm travels through the blood and eats its way to the skin: treatment involves wrapping the worm around a wooden stick and pulling it out.
dD6WB TIL that the memorial sign dedicated to Emmett Till, a 14-year-old african-american boy who was lynched for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi in 1955, have had to be replaced four times because people kept shooting them full of bullet holes. In 2019, a bulletproof sign was finally erected.
Z89NG TIL Madonna leaked a fake version of her album to pirates where every song was a loop of her saying "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" In response, a hacker posted the real album on her own site for everyone to download with the message: "This is what the fuck I think I'm doing."
xV71w TIL that despite having a reputation for deadly wildlife there has only been one confirmed death by spider bite in Australia since 1979
wmnM TIL Al-Qaeda attacks financed by $500,000 cost the US more than $500 billion