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TIL that Canadian school children take classes on empathy.

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p8Gpp TIL that Pirates may have worn eye-patches in order to have one of their eyes already adapted to darkness for when they go below deck.
n0DY TIL last year a Canadian judge fined a man $1 for being caught with 30 marijuana plants, citing ‘Antiquated and Ridiculous’ marijuana laws
BrNDK TIL clocks run from left to right because in the Northern hemisphere that's how sundials cast shadows (bonus: in an attempt to recover their cultural identity, Bolivians installed an anti-clockwise clock in their Congress building)
0wPap TIL it is possible to record 4 outs in a half inning of baseball. Thanks Snapple!
wo6vP TIL the estimate for number of stars in the observable universe is not one per grain of sand on all the beaches in the world - astronomers estimate there are 10,000 stars for every grain of sand on every beach in the world.