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TIL that the only way to get hold of industrial musician Loke Rahbek’s album ‘The Wild Palmsthat’ is to send nudes to his email.

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No9b TIL In the 1950s the government of Quebec illegally certified upwards of 20,000 orphaned children as mentally ill and had them committed to institutions. According to the testimony of several individuals, they were subjected to medical experimentation
Do0g TIL Civil War General John Brown Gordon was shot in the head and fell face first into his hat and would have drowned in his own blood except for a bullet hole in the hat through which the blood drained allowing him to live.
OoNEe TIL That during the Vietnam War, although 30-40K Americans dodged the draft in Canada, 30K Canadians volunteered to fight for the US in the Vietnam War. One even won the Congressional Medal of Honor.
YpxoZ TIL Canada has a Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve- much like the US has a strategic reserve of gasoline
60QQ TIL that during his Illinois senatorial campaign, Lincoln claimed he didn’t believe in racial equality between blacks and whites of any kind.