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TIL that the Canadian province of Alberta has no rats, and it is even illegal to own pet rats without a permit.

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rDr1 TIL that pistol dueling was a sport in the 1908 summer Olympics. Contestants used wax bullets and metal masks for safety.
X01ZD TIl the first page of the Gettysburg Address was written in Washington, in ink and on official stationery. The second page was written in Gettysburg, in pencil on a piece of that happened to be at hand.
R7aB6 TIL: America is home to “Body Farms,” places where corpses are just tossed out into nature to rot for scientists to study decomposition and forensics.
8ak8L TIL Modern body armor was created by a pizza delivery guy who was wounded in the head and leg after a pizza delivery turned into a shootout. Richard Davis, a former US Marine, developed the bulletproof vest using Kevlar. During testing, he shot himself in the chest 190 times.
b6yn4 TIL that Actress Jan Broberg Felt, who portrayed Evan Rachel Wood's on-screen mother in the 2001 film "Little Secrets" was a kidnapping victim in her youth.