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TIL The Canadian government sent the military (armed with rifles, bayonets, tanks, and IFV) to violently break up a First Nations protest over a golf course expansion onto their sacred burial grounds

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MajW TIL There is a Japanese word,ごっつん盗, that translates to, “To steal a car by gently rear-ending it and having a friend jump into the car and drive off after the driver gets out of their car to yell or bitch at you.
bjGj TIL a study in a Swiss population concluded: a Mediterranean diet, rich in extra virgin olive oil, with a Swiss twist of dairy products, lowers cancer and heart disease risk
KO0A9 TIL that Germans make up the largest ancestry group in the US followed by African Americans, Irish, Mexican and English. The German language was for a time the second most commonly spoken language in the US before the stigma of "speaking the enemy's language" during the World Wars.
7rwAO TIL “Tri” in Triscuit isn’t about three but rather elecTRIcity + bisCUIT since cooking with electricity was new technology.
ZBkp TIL On August 1st each year the people of Warsaw, Poland stop everything to pay homage to the Warsaw Uprising the largest rebellion of WWII. Which cost cost over 200,000 lives and destruction of the capital.