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TIL a quarter of Grade 4 students, half of Grade 7 students and 85 per cent of Grade 11 students in Canada have their own personal cellphone. They are being used less as actual phones and more as mini computers by kids

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RBZ1 TIL Adolf Hitler kept a life-sized portrait of Henry Ford next to his desk
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