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TIL Waldo is US and Canadian. To everyone else, he's Wally.

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Z8pGv Today I learned that New Zealand wants to eradicate all invasive mammal predators by 2050.
R51v9 TIL that in 1986, a sudden degassing of Lake Nyos in Cameroon released 1.6 million tons of Carbon Dioxide and killed 1,746 people and 3000 livestock from various villages within 16 miles of the lake
ANwel TIL that both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were skeptical of the results of the 1790 United States Census. They believed that the true population was higher than the total of 3,929,214 people counted in the Census.
R7ZM8 TIL that the Queen of England is the only person to have ever eaten British Chocolate ???? In 1932 a factory in York tried growing cacao plants in the inhospitable British weather, but harvested only enough for one small bar, which they presented to Elizabeth II.
p86M4 TIL that bad driving led Australian Police to a $140 million drug bust in Sydney. A man had driven his drug-filled van into an empty patrol car, then sped off. Police caught him an hour later. They found 270 kg of meth in the van.