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TIL Canada's 2nd Amendment is the transferring control of Prince Rupert's Land to Canada from Hudson Bay Company

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woPEP TIL Greeks put up protective magic hermai - stone block bearded male heads with genitals "at the appropriate height" - marked crossings, boundaries, outside houses and at public buildings, and were also signposts with distances. Outside Athenian homes hermai were rubbed with olive oil for good luck.
vPKjL TIL Georgia O'Keeffe's husband advertised her flower paintings as looking like genitalia, but she denied it and considered the sexual interpretation degrading.
mx5dx TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all their ink cartridges.
KVlJ TIL the concept of the “rap battle” has existed since the 5th century, where poets would engage in “flyting,” a spoken word event where poets would insult one another in verse. The Norse god Loki is noted as having insulted other gods in verse.
XEM4D TIL Walt Disney himself voiced Mickey Mouse from his premiere in 1928 until 1946 when Walt became too busy to do it.