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TIL the US-Canada Border is both the longest and least militarized border in the world

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mxQQM TIL Al Goldstein an American pornographer, In 1989, ran a full page ad in "Screw" offering $1 million for the assassination of the Ayatollah Khomeini, in response to Khomeini's fatwa against novelist Salman Rushdie for allegedly blaspheming Islam.
wB7 TIL Park rangers in the Galapagos release a “Judas” goat with a radio collar to find invasive herds of goats, kill all but the “Judas” goat and repeat.
gpnL TIL That Wild Bill Hickok once escaped being shot by waving his hand at onlookers behind a mounted gunman and yelling, “Don’t shoot him in the back; he is drunk.” The gunman wheeled his horse around, and before he realized he had been fooled, Hickok shot him through the temple.
LLyP TIL that cigarette manufacturers endorsed the creation of laws banning cigarette advertising, understanding that this would reduce costs and increase profits across the industry.
Z5nD TIL that Count Bernadotte, the famous Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews from concentration camps during WW2, was murdered in 1948 by militant Zionists (approved by a future Prime Minister) while serving as UN peace mediator in the Holy Land.