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TIL that Canadian school children take classes on empathy.

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QJGwE TIL actor Robert Pattinson dealt with an obsessed fan who had been camping outside his apartment by taking her out on a dinner date. "I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back."
6E0km TIL by 2019 the Magic Kingdom theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida had been the world's most visited theme park for 13 consecutive years.
e0Or4 TIL the Delaware Aqueduct, which provides half of New York City's fresh water, has been leaking up to 35 million gallons of water per day since at least the 1990s.
mxQVE TIL After studying every prediction that Spock made, it was discovered that the the more confident he was in his predictions, the less likely they were to come true. When he described something as being "impossible," he ended up being wrong 83% of the time
epjyk TIL that in the late 1600s Emperor K'ang Hsi, who had survived smallpox as a child, had his children inoculated. That method involved grinding up smallpox scabs and blowing the matter into nostril. Inoculation may also have been practiced by scratching matter from a smallpox sore into the skin.