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TIL Canada has only sentenced one person, Stanko Joseph Grmovsek, to prison for insider trading. He was the first and only person in Canadian history to serve a Federal sentence of imprisonment for insider trading. He was sentenced to 39 months in prison.

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LKMP TIL in 1979 Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House, saying, “In the year 2000 this solar water heater… can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, or can be a part of one of the greatest adventures ever undertaken by the American people.” They are now in a museum in China.
YoRW TIL Leonardo Da Vinci sketched a design for an armor-clad robot. A robot was built based on the sketch and was found to be fully functional
QJN9E TIL that in the lakes have snakes
BrEdL TIL of mysterious radio signals, called "perytons", that mimicked signals from deep space but were detected only at Parkes Observatory in Australia. They were actually caused by opening a microwave oven's door early.
v1dy4 TIL a meteor reportedly fell right on the battlefield during a war between Pontus and Rome. According to Plutarch, the sky suddenly split apart and a large silvery-hot meteor resembling a giant hogshead bombarded the ground between the armies. Both forces promptly withdrew to fight another day.