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TIL a teacher had sex with a student on her first day of the job. Within hours of starting.

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Xm9E TIL Canada has it’s own captain America, “Johnny Canuck”, who in his comics, fought nazis with a hockey stick and ended ww2.
WLbo TIL that Eritrea, a country in the Horn of Africa, is ranked as the country with the least Media Freedom, at 179 out of 179, it’s worse than North Korea which is in the 178th rank.
jNpNR TIL about 'Botanical Sexism', a process by which urban landscapers, in an effort to keep streets clear of seeds & flowers, plant only male trees. The male trees lack the seeds of their female counterparts & as the trees get bigger, their pollen counts increases which can worsen seasonal allergies.
d85ZZ TIL that Slavery in America started in 1619, when the privateer The White Lion brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia.
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