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TIL Euthanasia for patients with dementia is legal in Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

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W77lL TIL that no song debuted at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for 40 years, until 1995 - when it happened 4 times.
VBnZB TIL an early free trade agreement between the US and Canada was terminated by the US partly because of American anger towards the British's unofficial support of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
JyZV TIL in 19th Century France the skeleton of a 3.5M (11'6") tall neolithic human was discovered and scientifically examined
0w7WM TIL that during the Povolzhye Famine of 1921-1922 in the USSR, the USA provided enough food to feed 10.5 million people a day, limiting the death toll to 5 million people
ANLJl TIL that Nazi used to be a common abbreviation for the German name Ignaz, before Hitler was a thing. The linked historical song (1928) translates to "She has a big Nazi and a small Nazi and loves both of them" meaning a woman loving her husband and her son both named Ignaz