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

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wLxQJ TIL that every Honda CR-V from 1997 to 2006 had a picnic table stowed underneath the rear seats.
6EA7l TIL a man in England accidentally blew up his parents’ house after he knocked on a stove’s control, which burned a clothes basket, which then lit a grocery bag on fire and caused an aerosol can of deodorant to explode, resulting in £20,000 ($26,182) in damages.
16v4P TIL that Leonardo da Vinci never said "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward. For there you have been, and there you will always long to return." John Secondari, an American TV writer, came up with it for a TV episode about da Vinci in 1965.
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