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TIL that every year on 4/20 Canadians gather on the steps of parliament to smoke weed. Despite it not being legal in Canada yet, no arrests are made

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kJ8xB TIL about Andy, the goose born with no feet. His owner outfitted him with Nike sneakers to help him stand and move, helping him to become a role model for disabled children before he was murdered in 1991 under mysterious circumstances.
R57Bl TIL the inventor of the Jelly Belly only made about 5 million dollars.
p8Eae TIL that “cooties” originally was WWI soldiers’ slang for body lice that infested the trenches, before it evolved into a children’s game of contagion that even includes “inoculation” via a ball point pen and a rhyme, which emerged after the polio vaccine became common.
xAl5 TIL that General Motors and other companies would buy street cars and trains and scrap them to decrease public transportation competition
4kDvX TIL in 1780 James Jackson (well known as a duelist with a fiery temper) killed Georgia governor George Wells in a duel. In 1788, he was elected governor but declined it, citing his inexperience. Instead he served as a congressman & senator before being elected the 23rd governor of Georgia in 1797.