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awwgZ TIL In 2017, a woman called Chau Smith ran 7 marathons in 7 consecutive days on 7 continents in celebration of her 70th birthday.
grYJy TIL that in 1793, Canada passed the first anti-slavery legislation in the British Empire.
epk6k TIL that when Canada's Waterloo Lutheran University needed a new name in 1973, it renamed itself after Wilfrid Laurier. While the country's seventh prime minister had no connection with the school, the newly named Wilfrid Laurier University did not have to change its initials, WLU.
5YPmr TIL that Sean Connery was offered the role of Gandalf in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, and turned it down because he 'never understood the script', causing him to loose out on 450 million dollars