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TIL Canada has the longest coastline in the world at 125,567 miles (202,080km)

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1EKD TIL the low-carb, high-fat, high-protein diet of the Inuit has never conclusively been shown to have greater health benefits compared to non-Inuit diets: The Inuit population has the same risk for coronary artery disease, and their risk of cerebrovascular stroke is twice that of North America.
gMr79 TIL that an Englishman took 40,000 ecstasy pills in nine years.
kO6M4 TIL in 2000, two suicidal people met online and both decided they wanted to end their life by jumping off a cliff. The two strangers met up in Norway, took a cab to a popular cliff and jumped to their death together.
WkrGL TIL due to laws enacted following the decades-long Japanese occupation of Korea, It is illegal to broadcast Japanese music and television dramas over terrestrial signals in South Korea to this day.
KOp9w TIL that lobsters were once only fed to poor people and prisoners