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TIL that the Canadian province of Quebec is responsible for 75% of the world’s maple syrup production.

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16OnD TIL Michael Bay worked for Lucasfilm as a teen. When he filed the storyboards for Raiders of the Lost Ark, he thought it would be terrible. His opinion changed when he saw the final product, and it set him on his path to become a filmmaker.
pQEZ TIL of James Cameron, the only known survivor of a lynching attempt, who had a noose around his neck when an unidentified woman rescued him from a mob of over 10,000 people
D1e1e TIL The story of mass panic in New York caused by the radio broadcast of The War of The Worlds in 1938 is largely false and was caused by the newspaper industry sensationalizing the story, seeing it as an opportunity to attack the radio as being an untrustworthy source of news.
41o5 TIL of a type of food fraud where honey is cut with cheaper sugars and syrups and then sold as pure honey. This is called ‘Honey Laundering’.
PY9Lw TIL when Stephen Hawking met with the Pope in the Vatican, the Pope knelt down when he had trouble understand Hawking. This prompted one scientist in the room to say that "things certainly have changed since Galileo."