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TIL Canada has a strategic maple syrup reserve to ensure global supply in case of emergency.

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yWlV TIL that if a species is found across the entire world (like killer whales) they are considered to be cosmopolitan.
kJ15d TIL Elvis Presley was a natural blonde who used to dye his hair black.
4B5w TIL that the former president of the Milwaukee Police Association, John Balcerzak, found one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s fourteen year-old victims naked, drugged, and bleeding. After joking that the two were lovers, Balcerzak returned the victim to Dahmer, who later killed and dismembered the boy.
4m16 TIL Cisco owns the iOS trademark and licenses it to Apple
mxXNx TIL that the most popular book in the English-speaking world during the Gilded Era 1890s was "Progress and Poverty", a book about how land prices and rents cause economic boom/bust cycles and poverty.