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TIL Patrick Roach (Randy from the Trailer Park Boys) is now a Personal Consultant with an investors group

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epp65 TIL that the mating season of the wood pigeon depends upon whether it's an odd year or an even year!
YwpG TIL Germans and Russians in World War I had a temporary winter ceasefire to hunt hundreds of wolves that viciously attacked the soldiers
m1aJy TIL in 1940, when Paramount asked Fleischer Studios to created a Superman cartoon, Fleischer thought it would be too hard to make. In an attempt to avoid making the cartoon, they quoted four times the cost of an average cartoon for the budget ($100k). To their shock, Paramount agreed to the budget.
GAvG4 TIL that in 1994 the Government of Kiribati introduced a change in time zone for its eastern half that led to the International Date Line to move over 1,000 km eastwards to go around the country
A7Ww TIL:We write $10, instead of 10$ (as it is spoken) to prevent forging “I owe you 10.00$” can easily be changed to “I owe you 910.00$” but “I owe you $10.00” can at most be increased by less than a penny to “I owe you $10.0099999”