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TIL Ontario has eliminated Coal as a source of energy.

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N7oYJ TIL that Joseph-Ignace Guillotin did not invent the guillotine. He opposed executions and when he was unable to have them abolished, he suggested "decapitation by means of a simple mechanism." as the most humane method. When the device was finally invented, it was given his name.
58J9 TIL The Voice of Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid wrote the screenplays for Watchmen, X-Men, and X2: X-Men United
Oo1Oa TIL Georges Seurat's 1886 A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is composed of millions of tiny dots rather than brush strokes.
wrM8 TIL due to having no tools, an Inuit man once shat in his hand, shaped it into a knife as it froze, then used it to kill and skin a dog and make a sled out of its bones. He then strapped another dog to the sled so he could travel through a blizzard.
VBgLZ TIL nursing blue whale calves gain weight at about 10 lbs. per hour, or about 250 lbs. per day.