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TIL that 16% of Canadians believe that alien beings have come down to earth and now walk amongst us in our communities disguised as “us”

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BgXVk TIL that the first parking restrictions were in ancient Assyria in c700 BCE. They were made by king Sennacherib about the prohibition to park along the sacred road. The oldest parking signs read "Royal Road - let no man decrease it". The penalty was death followed by impaling outside one's own home
nyEP TIL An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs
p8plZ TIL electric eels are not actually eels, can jump out of the water to attack prey, make nests out of saliva, and are air breathers.
wLZw8 TIL of Jeanne de Clisson, a former noblewoman who became a privateer to avenge her husband after he was executed for treason by the French king. She plied the English Channel and targeted French ships, often slaughtering the crew, leaving few alive.
aw7wJ TIL that the loudest word ever shouted was "quiet". It was recorded in 1994 by an Irish schoolteacher and was 121.7 decibels.