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TIL the 1919 Stanley Cup Finals is the only time no winner was declared due to an outbreak of influenza which hospitalized most of the Montreal Canadiens and their general manager.

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9wdwB TIL that there's a secret letter from Queen Elizabeth II locked in a Vault, and it can’t be opened till 2085
X0kKP TIL in 2017, a man of the Fipa tribe disrespected his mother, and was disciplined by his tribe in the "traditional" way: Whipped, immersed in cow manure, mocked with song, and fined 1 goat and some cornmeal
j6xVN TIL: That the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission had planned to carve out an artificial harbor in Northern Alaska using buried nuclear explosions. The plan (Project Chariot) had a lot of public support and would have been carried out if the Inupiat village of Point Hope hadn't strongly opposed it.
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