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TIL there's an America's Best Restroom Competition.

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mxBDE TIL That my country Canada interred over 90% of Japanese Canadians residing in British Columbia during WWII. The majority of these 22,000 people were Canadian by birth. Measures were paid for in part by seizure and sale of the property of those interred and were not lifted until 1949.
LWxZ TIL that Eddie Van Halen’s payment for his solo on Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” was two six packs of beer.
PYm1e TIL that the Sahara Desert was once green 5000-11000 years ago due to Earth's orbital movement as it created the Humid period, which lasted a few centuries.
a8roN TIL about 20% of all classified mammal species can fly, because there’s over 1,200 species of bats.
neBv9 TIL In 2000, one of the worst peacetime submarines accidents ever took place off the coast of Russia. A huge explosion sank the giant nuclear-powered submarine Kursk, killing most of its crew and stranding nearly two dozen survivors hundreds of feet underwater.