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TIL Canada has shorter term mortgage contracts that have to be renewed when the contract expires. 5 year terms are most common.

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P59E TIL that Calvin Klein’s Obsession for Men fragrance is used by researchers to attract animals to cameras in the wilderness
0wOKM TIL about Ahlam Tamimi, who planned a bombing at a pizza shop in Israel & drove the bomber there, killing 15 people incl. 7 children & a pregnant women; injuring 130 including a young mother still in a coma. Today Tamimi is a celebrity talk-show host in Jordan & has said she "would do it again"
PYDDZ TIL that from 1334 to 1827 graduates of Oxford and Cambridge were required to swear an oath that they would not lecture outside these two English universities, as a consequence there were no new universities established in England until Durham University became England's third university in 1832.
NkJP TIL microwaves use the 2.4 Ghz frequency to cook your food which is the same WIFI uses, causing interference.
w1KM TIL during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on 26 December 2004, fishermen said they saw with their own eyes “the reality of generations of legends … the remains of ancient temples and hundreds of refrigerator-sized blocks, all briefly exposed before the sea swallowed them up again.”