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TIL that Canada is the most educated country in the world.

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KLJQ TIL that NASA has a plan if astronauts “Lose It”, and that plan is to tie them up with duct tape.
a8MMb TIL that the actor Harold Ramis avoided going to the Vietnam war by taking meth before his physical exam
1D9D TIL HSBC processed cash for Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. At least $881m in drug trafficking money was laundered throughout HSBC accounts. The bank widened the windows at some branches to allow tellers to accept larger boxes of money.
J1XR1 TIL George Lucas originally envisioned Indiana Jones as a nightclub going womanizer. But his writing partner nixed that and suggested making the Ark of the Covenant as the goal of Indiana's quest as his hematologist told him about it. Spielberg agreed to direct only after losing out on James Bond.
YpxmG TIL in 2017, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands revealed that he is a part-time commercial pilot for KLM since 1996.