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TIL Burlington, Ontario closes a section of King Road for annual migration of the Jefferson salamander.

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ZmNB TIL a 57yo Japanese man has been learning to SCUBA dive specifically so he can look for his wife’s remains after she was presumably swept away during the 2011 tsunami. He says her last email to him was “… I want to go home”, and he is determined to make that happen.
x9Ob TIL the California capitol punishment program (death penalty) has spent $4 billion USD to execute 13 people since 1978.
EL8x TIL the 31st Vice President of the United States, Charles Curtis, had considerable Native American ancestry and even spoke Kansa, the native tongue of the Kaw tribe.
QNWpM TIL that in spite of a public funeral attended by thousands, blues singer Bessie Smith’s grave was unmarked until 1970 because her husband refused to buy a headstone and pocketed the money when her friends attempted to purchase one on her behalf.
bDRQ TIL that in China, women who remain unmarried in their late 20s and beyond are called “Sheng nu” which means “leftover women.”