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TIL that Halifax sends Boston a Christmas tree every year to thank them for their aid in the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion of 1917.

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99Xm TIL that the ‘stomach in your mouth feeling’ on a roller-coaster is your organs FLOATING inside you
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