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TIL Canada wants complete disarmament of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons

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J1Dg1 TIL Snow leopards are not actually a sub species of leopards. In fact, they are instead more related to tigers than any true leopard.
XE7JD TIL that in 1667, the first human blood transfusion was performed; sheep's blood was successfully transfused in to a 15 year old boy and he lived. This was 233 years before blood typing was discovered.
OoEVg TIL World Record Breaking Waterslide Decapitated a 10 Year Old Boy.
ADnwB TIL that macaroni and cheese originated in the 14th Century. A Middle English recipe describes it as "Take and make a thynne foyle of dowh. and kerve it on pieces, and cast hem on boiling water & seeþ it well. take cheese and grate it and butter cast bynethen and above as losyns. and serue forth."
16G5O TIL in 1982, Byron Peiss wrote a book called the Secret. In it, there are clues to 12 treasure boxes hidden in various places all around the US and Canada. As of 2022, only 3 of the 12 boxes have ever been found. If a box is discovered, you can exchange it for bragging rights and a precious gem