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TIL 60% of Earth’s lakes are in Canada.

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e0EBb TIL the 1990 film Dick Tracy only used seven colors in the movie, all of them exactly the same shade.
Na06 TIL a Swiss freediver held his breath for 19 minutes. Which is 1 minute shy of a blue whale.
WknYN TIL During WW II the US Army was aware that mail to soldiers was critical for morale, but overwhelmed with the volume and space it took to ship. So the resuscitated a British/Eastman Kodak method where every letter was photographed, and the film was shipped, then printed. It was called V Mail.
9wAer TIL of Tilt Cove in Newfoundland, the smallest town in Canada with a population of 4-5 inhabitants.
pYBGQ TIL that the rock climbing community has an agreed-upon difficulty scale they use to classify climbing routes. The highest difficulty level, 9C, has only been awarded to one route, named Silence, in central Norway. It was successfully climbed for the first and only time to date in 2018.