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TIL Ontario has eliminated Coal as a source of energy.

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e0yJ4 TIL Benito Mussolini signed Vatican City into existence. The 1929 Lateran Treaty ended the dispute between the Italian government & the Catholic Church, which allowed the Vatican to exist as its own sovereign state and compensated the church $92 million (> $1 billion today) for the Papal states.
1aARr TIL The world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone.
WkV1L TIL The Mexican Drug War is considered to be one of the largest currently ongoing armed conflicts based on number of recent fatalities.
0w5g5 TIL WHINSEC formerly the US Army School of the Americas trains many of South America's dictators, assassins and death squads to this day
M7YQA TIL Web Development Isn't As Easy As They Make It To Be