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TIL The Avalanches debut album, Since I left You, featuring the song Frontier Psychiatrist, is estimated to include more than 3,500 vinyl samples

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wLYMM TIL that on September 11th, 2001, Officer John Perry of the NYPD went to headquarters to file retirement paperwork. When he heard the explosion at the world trade center he immediately responded and was later killed when one of the towers collapsed. He was the only off-duty officer killed on 9/11.
WkxL TIL that Canada was the third country to go to space
X0MlX TIL about the correct way to dispose of a tattered Canadian flag: unceremoniously burn it (if natural) or respectfully cut it apart colour-wise and put it in a garbage bag (if synthetic).
R5wg9 TIL I learned about the precursor to the BASIC programming language: the Dartmouth Oversimplified Programming Experiment ... it's DOPE
bPKN TIL Margaret Garner, a slave that escaped to Cincinatti, killed her own daughter with a butcher knife, wounded her other children, and tried to commit suicide rather when government officials tried to arrest her to return them to slavery