› added 7 months ago

22

TIL Canadian TV network CTV doesn't have official full name because CBC, Canadian public broadcaster, claimed it have exclusive rights to the term 'Canada'.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

BrjGb TIL that rats live pretty much everywhere in the world (in habitable land) except in Alberta, Canada.
gMl4b TIL that there are only three countries in the world that don't use the metric system - Liberia, Myanmar, and the United States.
Av6x TIL that Mount Everest has 4G LTE internet coverage and cellular service.
d8wJB TIL about psychosocial dwarfism, a condition where a child can stop growing due to an extremely stressful environment. It can cause the body to completely stop growing but is generally temporary; regular growth will resume when the source of stress is removed.
LEEv TIL Kim Jong-Un became Kim Jong-Il’s heir after his oldest son (Kim Jong-Nam) tried to sneak into Japan so he could go to Disneyland