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TIL Canada’s 1886 Indian Act defined “person” as “an individual other than an Indian”

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YpZ7r [TIL] that Isaac Wright (Bran on GOT) had to leave university after only 8 weeks because of all the attention he got. People had his flat address and his email address. He was even assigned a campus police officer at one point. When his then girlfriend came to visit they hid in his room for a week.
BXpr TIL that ironically, Reading Rainbow was actually canceled BECAUSE of No Child Left Behind.
R7km7 TIL Tree sap has many uses in the modern world including an ingredient in printing inks, photocopying and laser printing paper, soldering fluxes, pharmaceuticals, lens manufacturing, violin bow treatment, soft drink emulsifiers, and many more.
QnY9 TIL shortly before the great exodus from Digg, the company laid off 37% of its staff and installed an interim CEO.
yXle TIL in 1945 a group of Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.