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TIL that there’s going to be a backup of the backup of the internet located in Canada, to shield data from some possible American legal action.

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7ddr TIL The porcupine is the only native North American mammal with antibiotics in its skin. Those antibiotics prevent infection when a porcupine falls out of a tree and is stuck with its own quills
Zp0NG TIL of Seleucus VII Kybiosaktes King of Syria, translated Seleucus VII: the foul-smelling work of cutting tuna fish.
RGm4 TIL that when Napoleon returned to France from Elba, he approached some of the first troops sent to arrest him and opened his coat, “If any of you will shoot his Emperor, here I am.” They joined him instead.
worP6 TIL that in the 19th Century, Rudolf Lindt, of the famous Lindt chocolate family, accidentally invented the crucial step of "conching" chocolate – rolling the warm cocoa mass to make it smooth and reduce its acidity – by leaving a cocoa mass mixer running overnight.
xeWB TIL: that Keebler makes Girls Scout cookie knockoffs you can buy all year