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TIL Canada almost had a constitutional crisis during WWI due to imposing conscription; English Canadians supported the war due to British ties while French Canadians were adamantly against the war due to lack of loyalty to the UK or France

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PYZJL TIL a study found that a majority of women tended to prefer a man who cracks clean jokes vs dirty jokes, both for a casual hook-up & for a long-term relationship. But women who had a positive feeling about casual sex tended to find dirty jokes funnier.
9YXYp TIL about TRIS, a flame retardant that has been shown to cause cancer. However, TRIS and many other flame retardants are widespread in homes and are linked to a wide range of toxic effects even though they might not even work.
pZ6G TIL American schoolchildren rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries….but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
1aad4 TIL the first US naval ship to have electric lighting was the USS Trenton (commissioned, 1877). The lights were installed in 1883
0J8M TIL eighty percent of all animal species on Earth have six or more legs.