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TIL Around 10% of Canada visits Florida every year.

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BrXgk TIL in WWI, German, French, and British forces used fake, hollow trees to spy on their enemies' movement. To do this, combat artists would duplicate a bombed out tree nearby, and under the cover of darkness, engineers would uproot the original tree and replace it with the fake one.
d8aY7 TIL Texas is called The Lone Star State because when it was part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas, its flag bore two gold stars in the middle. When Texas declared its independence from Mexico they "took" one of the stars with them and Coahuila kept the other one.
DQM0P TIL that in 1917 the USA granted citizenship to Puerto Ricans, and 2 months later imposed conscription for entry into WWI, applicable to all male citizens which now included Puerto Ricans. About 20,000 served in WWI
j6QE TIL Woody Harrelsons Father was a contract Killer
eJan TIL Workers who cut up pineapples eventually lose their fingerprints due to the action of the proteolytic enzyme, bromelain, that dissolves them.