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TIL There's a PBS TV station in Upstate New York who has more Canadian viewership than American, and therefore signed off every night with the Canadian national anthem and then the U.S. national anthem.

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8ajxb TIL that Brazil was a monarchy until Crown Princess Isabel signed a law emancipating all slaves in Brazil in 1888. This was unpopular among the rich plantation owners and the imperial family was deposed in a military coup
N70D1 TIL At one point, the Beatles album "Revolver" was going to be named "After Geography", a pun on the Rolling Stones album "Aftermath".
j0lX TIL of the 3400 years of recorded history, only 268 are considered peaceful.
raMw TIL that Al Gore’s father once proposed, in Congress, “something cataclysmic” be done to end the Korean War. His suggestion involved creating a radiation belt on the 38th parallel using atomic bombs to turn the border of North and South Korea into a permanent toxic wasteland.
ZpDER TIL the average urinary flow rate for women over 66 years old is twice the rate of men the same age. (18mL/sec. vs. 9mL/sec.)