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TIL of the town Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha, Québec. The the only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.

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gRK9 TIL a Jack Russell used to catch the bus to his favourite pub in York, UK all by himself. Jumping on the No.10 near his house, he would visit The Black Bull where he had his own water dish and a regular supply of sausages, before getting a lift home at closing time with one of the barmaids.
4aMJ TIL Mark Twain was born and died in the same years that Halley’s Comet flew by the Earth. Twain said, “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.” He died of a heart attack day after the Comet’s closest approach in 1910.
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