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TIL there is a town in Canada named Asbestos

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awM4L TIL that in 2006 after a man shot 10 Amish children then committed suicide, the Amish went to the his family to offer them support. They also set up a charitable fund for his family and during the shooter's funeral they surrounded the family to provide them privacy from the media.
VMJLB TIL Over 16 million animals served in World War One. Both sides had large cavalries, camels were used in desert campaigns, dogs and pigeons carried messages, canaries were used to detect gas, and cats and dogs were trained to hunt rats in the trenches. Various animals were used as mascots too.
8ekW4 TIL a robot named HitchBot successfully hitchhiked across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, but got decapitated while hitchhiking across the US
pYxV4 TIL: Kodak, the camera company, had a secret nuclear reactor containing weapons grade, highly enriched uranium that the government didn’t know about
Ypm5W TIL that in Japanese, being bisexual is referred to as "Nitoryu", or "Dual-wielding"