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TIL Turkeys blush when excited
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TIL Spain, Belgium and France have some of the highest Organ Donation rates but not because they voluntarily choose to. It is because the gov has changed the option on the license application where you have to check Opt-out to not be considered a donor. The default setting is that you are a donor.
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TIL In 2017, a woman called Chau Smith ran 7 marathons in 7 consecutive days on 7 continents in celebration of her 70th birthday.
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TIL that in 1793, Canada passed the first anti-slavery legislation in the British Empire.
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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.
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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