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TIL Ontario, Canada is named after the lake. Not the other way around.

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W7gA9 Today I learned a radioactive cocaine analogue is used to test for Parkinson’s disease
BLyW TIL sniper bullets can travel so far that the rotation of the Earth will move the target, and shooters have to adjust their aim accordingly.
V60p TIL Between 1945 and 1965, the number of people under British rule outside the UK itself fell from 700 million to five million.
0wYpM TIL playwright and actor Noël Coward never publically confirmed that he was homosexual, even when it was known. When making a statement on his sexuality, he just said that "There are still a few old ladies in Worthing who don't know.".
a80db TIL that unlike knitwears, crochet products can't be mass produced. There are little to no machines that can do it. That means every crochet product you see on the market are handmade..by companies who exploit workers for cheap labor.