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TIL of Captain Canuck, a superhero who lives in the futuristic world of 1993, where “Canada had become the most powerful country in the world.”

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GAZeQ TIL about Desmond Doss, an American combat medic in WW2 who single-handedly rescued an estimate of 75 men in Okinawa in one battle, one at a time, without carrying a single weapon. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery, and was the first conscientious objector to be given it.
5WbB TIL Nestle’s enormous California (water) bottling plant is on an Indian reservation so they don’t have to adhere to government water restrictions during droughts or report on how much water they’re actually using.
QnOe TIL science fiction writer Isaac Asimov died from complications of HIV due to a blood transfusion. For the next 10 years, the public wasn’t told he died of HIV.
b99nQ TIL that Carrie Fisher got a copy of the Star Wars Holiday Special from George Lucas (in exchange for recording DVD commentary for Star Wars) and showed it at parties 'mainly at the end of the night when I want people to leave.'
Xy1k TIL an entirely unfounded rumor about “flesh eating bananas” panicked the public to such an extent that the Center for Disease Control had to set up a “banana hotline” as it was inundated with calls from the gullible public worried about killer bananas!