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

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gMN09 TIL that a “thing” was a term used to describe a governing assembly in medieval Saxon and Viking cultures. A thing was presided over by law speakers, and free members of the community were called to attend.
0dymj TIL Craig Bartlett the Hey Arnold creator was married to The Simpsons creator Matt Groening's sister (Lisa Groening) and co-write a novelisation to Hey Arnold with Matt Groening's other sister Maggie Groening.
PYZJL TIL a study found that a majority of women tended to prefer a man who cracks clean jokes vs dirty jokes, both for a casual hook-up & for a long-term relationship. But women who had a positive feeling about casual sex tended to find dirty jokes funnier.
78m8b TIL In 2000 Performer Uri Geller sued the sued video game company Nintendo for £60 million over the Pokémon species "Kadabra", which he claimed was an unauthorized appropriation of his identity since he was well known for bending spoons in his act.
xV5RB TIL: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) was the most expensive film produced in the 1980s ($70 mil) and had the longest on-screen credits for a film.