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TIL that Canadian Senators have a mandatory retirement age of 75.

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yo5X TIL the indigenous people of Bougainville Island successfully carried out the world’s first “eco-revolution” closing down one of the world’s largest mines, driving away private security and in turn the Papua New Guinea and Australian army using home-made weapons and running vehicles on coconut oil
d8ZEr TIL James Franco got a “D” in his acting class at NYU while also filming 127 hours - the movie he was nominated for an Academy Award.
OGerL TIL Part of the land where the Pentagon sits today used to be a hemp farm
0wmVp TIL about the Oka Crisis, where the mayor of Oka wanted to raze Aboriginal land to expand a golf course. A documentary, called Kanehsatake: 270 years of resistance gives a native’s perspective
rRJv1 TIL that Woody Harrelson's father was a contract killer who was responsible for assassinating the first federal judge to have been killed in the 20th century