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TIL Ontario's boundary with the United States runs 2700 kilometers on water and only about one kilometer on land.

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d8W9j TIL about a Chinese dentist from a small village who was put on trial for malicious slander and executed, for comparing a mango to a sweet potato.
J1jkm TIL India celebrates Children's Day on November 14, exactly nine months after Valentine's Day.
N7rK8 TIL Canada's nuclear reactors (CANDU) are designed to use decommissioned nuclear weapons as fuel and can be refueled while running at full power. They're considered among the safest and the most cost effective reactors in the world.
0wxEj TIL that in her wedding in 1981 Princess Diana deviated from tradition and omitted the line in which she promised to "obey" Prince Charles.
xVMYk TIL During the NYC blackout of 1977, the crew filming “Superman” outside the old Daily News building on 42nd Street lent their klieg lights to the editors so they could see the newspaper pages they were laying out.