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TIL In Ontario, New Brunswick and Manitoba, it’s illegal for non-vaccinated children to attend public school services.

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ep6JJ TIL that despite the popular belief that SOS stands for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls", it actually doesn't stand for anything. SOS was developed because it was an easy sequence of letters to remember in Morse Code (three dots, three dashes, three dots).
0nb5 TIL a 12 year old boy who saw his own father murdered by a family friend, avenged the death of his father by killing the alleged murderer in a revenge attack he had planned for 12 years. He cut him into 12 pieces, one each for the years of wait.
P1lRO TIL that on the weekend of Friday June 22nd Professional Wrestler Chris Benoit killed his wife Nancy, then his son and the next day himself. But 14 hours before anyone knew what happened a wiki user edited a wiki article to say that Nancy was dead, later claiming it was a "terrible coincidence".
nraW TIL that there’s a theory that states a star may be dark (called a dark star) because its mass is so large that light can’t escape the surface due to the gravity.
OGleg TIL in ancient Rome, being born with a hooked nose was considered a sign of leadership.