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XEQ6Q TIL North Preston, Nova Scotia is the oldest and largest indigenous Black community in Canada.
epy4D TIL In 2014, a 15-year-old teenager injected himself with mercury, hoping to gain superpowers like the X-Men. He mimicked Wolverine's transformation, but it ended in disaster. He nearly lost his life and realized superpowers are just fiction.
gr6mb TIL It is generally accepted that the first real high five was done by Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team on October 2, 1977.
wLnno TIL a study by the University of Oxford shows there's no link between violent video games and aggression in teens. Compared to previous research which relied on self-reported data from teens, this study used info from parents to judge the level of aggressive behavior in their children.
jN1Vn TIL most of Japanese schools don’t have janitors. Instead there is a tradition of students cleaning their own classrooms and school.