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TIL Around 10% of Canada visits Florida every year.

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oBveW TIL that out of the 101 oldest people who have lived/are still living, 95 of them are female.
nWK1b TIL the Unabomber's (Ted Kaczynski) cabin was in FBI storage for several years before becoming a museum piece.
WKL9 TIL a non-EU student can, on average, attend a public university in a variety of European countries for under $1500 a year.
a8GNA TIL that in his classic Western spoof Blazing Saddles (1974), Mel Brooks named his character Gov. LePetomane after that of a 19th century French stage act of he same name. Flatulist Joseph Pujols combined the French verb péter ("to fart") with "mane" (maniac), loosely translating to "thefartmaniac".
E1Bk0 TIL only Alaska Native peoples who reside in Alaska and dwell on the coast may harvest Pacific walruses for subsistence and handicraft purposes. The harvest must be non-wasteful and taking the walrus only for their ivory is not allowed.