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TIL feminine Hygiene products are not taxed in canada

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QdnX TIL of the Holodomor, an attempted genocide with a death toll surpassing that of the Holocaust. Between 1932-1933 Stalin purposely starved up to 7,000,000 Ukrainians.
nZBY TIL that only half of the Super Nintendo library was released in the US: 725 games were released in North America versus 1513 in Japan.
JY6k TIL 3 suicide bombers prematurely exploded because the bombs were set on daylight savings time.
OoxMY TIL The same week Anne Heche was cast in her first starring role Touchstone Pictures fired her after she made a red carpet appearance on the arm of Ellen DeGeneres, who she'd met just days earlier. Harrison Ford used his influence to get her rehired, but the damage to her career was already done.
kOd47 TIL about Robert Landsberg, a photographer who upon realisation that he is going to die in the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980 lied down on top of his equipment to preserve the photographs he had taken of the event.