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Today I learned,Greenland has a higher homicide rate than America per capita

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pALe TIL There is a restaurant in Pittsburgh, the Conflict Kitchen, that only serves cuisines from countries that the US is in conflict with. When they started serving Palestinian food, they received death threats.
rNDAe TIL about the true reason the vast Hudson Bay Lowlands remain largely uninhabited and even undiscovered - it is all Muskeg, a wetland landscape of bogs and wetlands comprising organic matter, which can get so soft during spring thaw that it is known to sink building structures and even train cars
R0A6 TIL there is a species of deer in Germany who won’t cross the border where the Iron Curtain once stood, even though that border has been gone physically for 20 years.
J47V TIL that Comcast sent bills and eventually collection notices to customers that lost their cable, phone, and internet equipment due to Hurricane Ike. The largest reported charge was $1000, but that bill was reduced to $931 to make up for the interruption of her phone service during the storm.
vPDn7 TIL of Timothy Buck— general secretary of the Communist Party of Canada from 1929-1962. Buck was one of the top leaders of the Communist International, and his closest election victory in becoming a Member of Parliament came in 1945, receiving 26.15% of the vote and coming 3rd place in his riding.