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TIL: pearl harvesting doesn't require the oyster to be kill, and in fact farmers try not to because oysters normally produce better pearls as they get older. (#8)

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b1ya TIL that in 2007, Quebec police sent provocateurs disguised as demonstrators to a protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello Quebec to incite a riot and justify dispersing the otherwise legal and constitutionally protected peaceful assembly.
oNbY TIL Five Men Agreed To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb (video included)
NXG7b TIL, The Netherlands gives Canada 20,000 tulips every year as a thank you for protecting the Dutch royal family in ww2
GAgw5 TIL that India's first representative at the Winter Olympics., in 1964, was Jeremy Bujakowski, an Lithuanian born skier of Polish descent who grew up in India (and was naturalized as an Indian citizen). He learned to ski in Boise, Idaho, USA.
YprPG TIL plastic surgeons use cocaine during nose reconstruction. The nose is very sensitive to bleeding so they pat in some powder because it is the only known drug to simultaneously constrict blood flow and numb pain.