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TIL that as an April Fool’s joke, the Canadian government announced it was reviving the extinct passenger pigeon using dinosaur eggs

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9glM TIL that Luke Magnotta, a 30-year-old former porn actor, murdered, dismembered, and cannibalized a Chinese exchange student, posted a video of it online, then mailed the body parts to various Canadian political parties.
KOx1J TIL Phil Hartman used to be a graphic designer and designed the logo for Crosby, Stills & Nash.
b9ymj TIL that Italian is often the second language of most older native Italians, and while the locals are said to speak different, they actually predate modern Italian which became the national language in 1861. The “dialects” are often so different that locals can’t understand the other dialects
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