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TIL that sweet potato DNA indicates that Polynesia had contact with South America long before the Europeans.

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7re6L TIL Barry, a mountain rescue dog in Switzerland, saved more than 40 lives of stranded people buried under avalanches during his lifetime (1800-1814).
OGMQY TIL The Canadian Bill of Rights is not a constitutional document and can be overridden.
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rmxy TIL that in 1979, a number of people called in sick with a case of “being homosexual,” in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness. Within a few months, Sweden joined the few other countries in the world at the time to de-classify homosexuality as an illness.