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TIL Easter Sunday will coincide with April Fools' day in 2018 for the first time since 1956

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Qak9 TIL that Gary James Paulsen (“Hatchet” author) watched his mother beat a molester to death, hunted for sustenance while a teen, was molested by his parents servant, ran away and joined a carnival at 14, witnessed a plane crash/passengers get attacked by sharks, and completed the 1,150 mile Iditarod
DQjg TIL that a man in India was wrongly declared dead by the government, and to disprove this he had to go as far as contesting against the incumbent Prime Minister in an election.
b9yA0 TIL Stork embroidery scissors were originally umbilical clamps used by midwives to restrict blood flow before cutting. Midwives began sharpening them as sewing scissors to use during the long awaited times before delivery.
7rm0Z TIL Winnipeg's Portage and Main is considered the "most famous interesection in Canada". The downtown street is the widest of its kind due to its historic use as an ox cart trail. At its height, the muddy rut-rife passage through town was wide enough to accommodate up to 20 carts at once
ANxPg Today I learned that the original version of "The Three Bears" didn't have a girl named Goldilocks visiting a family of bears, but rather an unnamed old woman visiting three adult male bears who happened to be different sizes.