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TIL that, under the original Articles of Confederation, Canada was given an opportunity to join the United States.

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R7r0Q TIL Gene Wilder agreed to play Willy Wonka on the condition that when he made his first appearance, he’d be allowed to limp, trip over his cane and bounce back up to great applause. When asked why, he said, “Because from that time on, no one will know if I’m lying or telling the truth.”
RkKj TIL in 1251 the king kept a polar bear in the Tower of London, which “attracted a great deal of attention from Londoners when it went fishing in the Thames”
J1Yom TIL in 2018, a leaping elk brought down a research helicopter in Utah.
RbRw TIL that in 2007 the Taliban used GPS data from photos uploaded to Facebook from soldiers to locate and destroy 4 Apache gunship helicopters.
d8Le9 TIL during the 2008 Great Recession, overall mortality rates actually went down.