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TIL that Alberta, Canada is the only inhabited region on Earth that is free of Norwegian rats.

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gEgA TIL that Mike Myers has been trying to get a live-action Pepé Le Pew film made, with him voicing the titular Parisian skunk.
6DL8 TIL that a German lieutenant, Friedrich Lengfeld, was killed by a land mine while attempting to rescue a wounded American soldier during the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in WWII. The Americans erected a monument in his honor; the only American monument placed in any German military cemetery.
XnYR TIL in 2007, the Israeli Ambassador to El Salvador was recalled after being found outside the Israeli Embassy drunk, hands tied, and wearing only bondage gear. The police only discovered his identity after removing the ball gag from his mouth.
j6XZj TIL that Philip Gale was a child prodigy who killed himself at age 19 by jumping from a classroom window. Before he did it, he wrote on the blackboard Newton's equation for how an object accelerates as it falls, along with a sketch of a stick figure tossing a chair. He signed it, " Phil was here. "
1ovV TIL that Carl Sagan warned that attempting to communicate with intelligent life outside of our solar system would be “deeply unwise and immature” due to the possibility of being annihilated by a hostile alien civilization.