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TIL that American football was invented in Canada
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TIL the Hawaiian flag has a Union Jack on it because when King Kamehameha received one as a gift from British traders, he liked it so much that he just stole the design to use as his own.
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TIL Oxford researches attributed 10,000 suicides to "the Great Recession" from 2008 to 2010 in North America and Europe
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TIL that up until the 1600s, a “black swan” was a metaphor for something that did not exist. Then a group of Dutch explorers became the first Europeans to see black swans in Western Australia in 1697, and the phrase was amended to mean “a perceived impossibility that might later be disproven.”
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TIL there were more murders in Chicago in 2016 than the entire United Kingdom
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TIL that a finger with nerve damage won’t wrinkle under water.