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TIL In 2011, The Canadian version of the game show Cash Cab hit and killed a pedestrian in Vancouver

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nep1P TIL that the term "teetotaler" came from the abbreviation "T.A.", for Total Abstinence. This was written on pledge cards in temperance societies, proclaiming that you were abstaining from alcohol rather than just drinking in moderation.
OGOP7 TIL the word helicopter is not derived from combining “heli” and “copter” but by combining helico from the Greek for “spiral” and pteron from the Greek for “wing.”
6NnZ TIL Emperor Constantine did not make the Roman Empire Christian. He only made it tolerate Christianity. He supported both Christianity AND Paganism.
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