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TIL The Government of Canada's toll-free telephone number is 1 800 O-Canada

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M7jYK TIL that actor Tom Arnold’s sister got married at age 14, with her mother’s permission, to a 23-year old. She later went on to run one of the largest meth operations in the Midwest until her arrest in 1989.
P15XV TIL Russell Crowe turned down an offer to play Aragorn in the LOTR trilogy that included 10% of the backend grosses (which would've been about $100 million). He felt WB had forced Peter Jackson to make the offer & that Jackson had somebody else in mind & he should be allowed to hire who he wants.
VokB TIL XVideos alone averages 4.4 billion page views per month, double what Reddit pulls over the same time and triple what CNN can do.
MeK0A TIL Roman soldiers were given one pound of meat daily. For an army 120 sheep were killed a day just for the meat ration. Or 60 hogs. Huge flocks of livestock were herded and grazing alongside an army. Roman soldiers were a mule more than anything else. They carried very heavy gear, on bad roads.
9w0g7 TIL The United States does not have an official language