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TIL That child support in Canada is based on past income not current income. People can be ordered by the court to pay more money than they make or have ever made. If Dave Foley returns to Canada he will go to jail because the child support payments are now literally impossible.

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lK0a TIL there is a real time model that shows the Earth’s wind patterns
N76xJ TIL that before the Nintendo GameCube was released, one of the codenames for it were “Dolphin”
awPRo TIL Chinese wildlife trade industry is worth around $76 billion and employs more than 14 million people.
WPoX TIL, CBC had a contest to complete the phrase “as Canadian as ____” (by analogy with “as American as apple pie”). The winner: “as Canadian as possible, under the circumstances”
5YE0p TIL of Musical Roads, which are highway rumble strips that sound like music when you drive over them. First created in Denmark, they are now found all over the world. One stretch of road in California plays the William Tell Overture.