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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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dD9AB TIL a Glasgow art venue/nightclub uses specialized technology inside its dancefloor to collect the body heat of its dancers and converts it into renewable energy to power itself.
7e5r TIL the Olympic flame in 1976 traveled by radio waves to a laser that lit the cauldron.
neLdG TIL Octopuses have blue blood, no bones and three hearts
lgxV TIL in 1981, a pediatrician saved the life of a 3.2-pound premature baby boy by working around the clock to beat the odds & stabilize him. In 2011, the pediatrician was pinned inside a burning vehicle after a car collision, but was saved by the premature baby, who had grown up to become a paramedic.
LB7Q TIL; That when you are born and take your first breath, the pressure change in your lungs causes a valve between the two atria in your heart to close and eventually fuse. When this doesn’t happen correctly a baby can have a hole in their heart, but initially everyone had the same hole.