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TIL that Canada has a free service to return lost keys to their owners - so far over 1.5 million keys have been returned

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Z1dR TIL in the early ‘80s (before the HIV epidemic), there was a popular brand of appetite suppressant candy called “Ayd’s”. Their unfortunate marketing slogan? “Lose weight with Ayd’s!!”.
ANJ5a Today I learned that the USS Samuel B Roberts is the deepest shipwreck in the world.
9YEQp TIL the pirate 'Black Bart' believed Irish people to be some of the worst people to have on your crew due to them being highly mutinous. As a result, many people who Bart tried to force into piracy would often fake an Irish accent so they could get out of it.
XEKlj TIL: The term "yakuza" comes from the numbers 8, 9, and 3, which are the worst cards you can have in Oicho-Kabu, a Japanese card game similar to Baccarat.
oRPxr TIL Stonehenge used to be owned by one man, Cecil Chubb. He bought it as a gift for his wife, who didn’t appreciate the gesture, as she’d sent him to buy curtains.