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TIL that in 1793, Canada passed the first anti-slavery legislation in the British Empire.

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N7BXQ TIL Philip Seymour Hoffman didn't want his children to be "Trust Fund Kids" so he didn't make a trust for them, which resulted in a $12 million tax bill that he could have avoided if he made a trust and exercised proper estate planning.
b9E5N TIL: Berries are simple fruits stemming from one flower. This means that pineapples, bananas, watermelon, pumpkins, and avocados are berries.
d8ky9 TIL: Godzilla's roar was created by dragging a resin-coated leather glove along the loosened strings of a double bass.
JPRm TIL that Sir Tim Berners-Lee – the inventor of the World Wide Web – randomly selected the colour blue for hyperlinks.
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