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TIL Purolator Courier is owned by Canada Post

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1Xe7 TIL that a wedding ring is placed on the left ring finger because in ancient times, people used to believe that this was the only finger where a vein connected straight to the wearer’s heart. This vein was named ‘vena amoris’, the vein of love.
rBOx TIL that Groupon is trying to take the name GNOME, a registered trademark, from the Open Source Linux Desktop environment of the same name that’s been around for almost two decades for a proprietary app.
b6Rj9 TIL that Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right-hand side of the road all in one day
0d9oA TIL Even with the U.S. population almost doubling since 1957, more babies were born that year than any year in American history.
588Q TIL researchers have found that people are more likely to engage in sexual and aggressive behaviors when drunk in societies where it’s commonly believed that alcohol intoxication leads to those behaviors; this phenomenon is known as the ‘think-drink effect’.