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TIL there is a Hatian martial art called machete fencing

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e0Yyn TIL that, aside from some obvious exemptions, like exposure of genitals for a sexual purpose to anyone who's underage, public nudity is not illegal anywhere in Canada. Being topless in public, nude sunbathing, swimming and even streaking have been upheld as legal through multiple court challenges.
JQv8 TIL the Boxers (the dogs) are named that because they’ll paw at you, or ‘box you’, to show affection
ADBM4 TIL about Microtargeting where machine-learning algorithms ingest large amounts of voter data to divide the electorate into narrow segments and predict which individual voters are best target to persuade or turn out in an election
BgXXe TIL about Charles Daniels, a little-known photographer who shot tens of thousands of pictures of famous rock stars during the 1960s and 70s, and has been sitting on "roughly 3,200 rolls of undeveloped film".
R7LVw TIL that, when World War 2 began, the US had the 12th largest army (behind Brazil) and the 18th largest air force in the world. By summer 1944, we were building bombers at the rate of one per hour.