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

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kxn4 TIL Edwin H. Armstrong the inventor of the FM radio committed suicide because he was spending 90% of his time on litigation against RCA who were trying to suppress the technology.
OoNa1 TIL that Jack Kirby - co-creator of Captain America - had street fights with Nazi sympathisers and later fought behind enemy lines in WW2.
g6wL TIL in the original pitch for Bob’s Burgers the family actually were cannibals that made their burgers out of human flesh. FOX found the idea to be too dark.
KGlR TIL over 80% of antibiotics in the U.S. are given to farm animals. Antibiotics help them gain weight and stay healthy in overcrowded conditions, but also encourage antibiotic resistant bacteria that spread to workers and meat consumers. Pfizer has spent $900,000 fighting a bill to stop the practice.
R7e54 TIL John A. Macdonald, from Upper Canada, and George-Etienne Cartier, from Lower-Canada, served as co-prime ministers of the Province of Canada. The Ottawa MacDonald Cartier International Airport features statues of the founders at a bench near the luggage pickup