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TIL Canada had to alter their $5 note to make Wilfrid Laurier look less like Spock

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J1gwB TIL Mannheim Steamroller was unable to find any record label to release their unusual work, so their founder Chip Davis created his own label, American Grammaphone, based in Omaha, NE. They have sold more than 30 Million albums.
rRDe1 TIL that the idiom "spare the rod and spoil the child" isn't Biblical or about how to raise a child but actually a line out of Hudibras, a bawdy poem talking about BDSM, among other things...
OP4X TIL three Marlboro men – Wayne McLaren , David McLean and Dick Hammer – died of lung cancer.
e0En6 TIL since 2014, McDonald's has been losing locations in the U.S. every single year.
9wW6p TIL Ethiopia, Bhutan, Albania, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, and Costa Rica are the only countries to have 100% renewable electricity generation