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TIL about the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, where thieves stole ~$18 million worth of Maple Syrup from Quebec.

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nQ67 TIL of Joseph Newton Chandler III, a reclusive engineer living in Ohio who was posthumously discovered to have stolen the identity of an eight year old boy who died in a car crash in 1945. He had been living as Joe Chandler for 24 years when he died, and his true identity has never been established
ANQVx TIL that Rowan Atkinson, who plays Mr. Bean, has an IQ of 178, which is considered as a super genius and in top 0.1% of the population in the world.
5V48 TIL Sweden is so green it has to import garbage.
R7VV6 TIL of the murder of Henryk Siwiak. It's the only recorded homicide in New York on September the 11th, 2001, as the city does not include the deaths from the attacks in the official crime statistics; the murder remains unsolved.
Z0Oa TIL the arctic vortex hitting the U.S., and the drought in California are caused by unusually warm water temperatures near the Gulf of Alaska.