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TIL that some Canadian police departments give out “positive tickets” to thank people for doing something good.

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BrgmD TIL wombats have cube shaped poop.
d87a7 Today I learned it’s a federal crime in the United States to clog up the toilet in a national forest.
EgDpp TIL that the Wright Brothers' first patent wasn't for their airplane. It was for the system of controls they built to control their airplane.
epj6n TIL: The 1891 New Orleans lynching of 11 Italian Americans, in New Orleans, was the largest single mass lynching in American history
6E6xm TIL that on October 8, 1871, three of the worst fires in American history began. The Great Chicago Fire displaced 100,000, the Great Michigan fire burned 2.5 million acres of forest, and the Peshtigo fire remains America's deadliest with 1200-2500 killed.