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TIL Canada's broadcasting regular forbids false and misleading news over Canadian airwaves

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OGJJa TIL Kiviak is a traditional food from Greenland that is made of little seabird packed and fermented in a seal skin. Up to 500 whole birds, beaks and feathers included, are packed into the seal skin and then hidden in a heap of stones and left to ferment over the course of three months.
Brm6D TIL exactly 57 years ago, JFK gave his Ich bin ein Berliner ("I am a Berliner") speech in the backdrop of the Berlin Wall. “Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in.”
gvbA TIL that Sept 11th has a different meaning in Chile. That was the date in 1973 that the CIA backed the overthrow of a democratic government by Augusto Pinocet who would go on to kill over 3000 and torture up to 30,000 Chileans.
1a6O4 TIL You need a visa to travel from Hong Kong to China, even though Hong Kong is technically a part of China.
4klN TIL that in Mandarin, “Cat” is pronounced “Mao” in a a high tone.