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TIL ALBERTA CANADA IS RAT FREE!

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a8VVJ TIL that a famine in Persia (Iran) between 1917–1919 lead to the deaths of an estimated 2 million people. It's an event that hasn't been studied by many historians.
nWK4o TIL that the first automobile recall was because Henry Ford tried using Spanish moss to stuff the car seats, but had to recall them when chiggers started coming out and biting people.
y88a TIL that Wimbledon finalist Andy Murray is a survivor of the Dunblane school massacre where 17 adults and children were killed and that his mother gave the killer lifts in her car.
oBA5o TIL about the Dunning-Kruger Graph / Effect- it explains so much about today's self-proclaimed experts!
nW4Ad TIL that the Norovirus, a common cause of the “stomach flu”, is resistant to alcohol based hand sanitizer and affected by host’s blood type.