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

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4Xoyb TIL about the Nigerian Civil War, where the US, UK, and the Soviet Union were supporting the same side during the cold war, while China, France, and West Germany were supporting the other side
689Y TIL there is an anti-date rape cup and straw. They detect date rape drugs when placed in a beverage to alert the victim.
xn6w TIL that goldfish can live beyond 20 years if you take good care of them. The oldest goldfish on record was 43 years.
k7B4 TIL Andy Weir, the author of The Martian, was so keen on getting every detail right, he wrote programs to calculate the orbital paths of spaceships that appear in the book.
69Mk7 TIL if you publish a book in Norway, the government will buy 1000 copies (1,500 if a children's book) and distribute them to libraries throughout the country.