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TIL Canada has an entire TV channel completely dedicated to rotisserie chicken

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N9gM TIL The name hotmail was chosen because it contains HTML, and was originally styled HoTMaiL.
yV4a TIL Al Pacino’s grandparents immigrated to the US from Corleone, Sicily, the same town as Vito Corleone in “The Godfather”
QXok TIL that, when Charles DeGaulle ordered the removal of U.S. Troops from France in 1966, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked if that included the 60,000+ American Soldiers buried there from the first two world wars. An embarrassed DeGaulle never clarified the point. (Happy Memorial Day)
e0xvL TIL pedestrianism was a famous sport in the 19th century where people would compete to walk the furthest distance in the shortest amount of time. A famous challenge was walking 1000 miles in 1000 hours, first completed by Robert Barclay Allardice in 1809.
ADaXn TIL China's single child policy resulted in groups of people that had never encountered genetic siblings. The notion of "sibling" was a hard one for the children to grasp - a task made more difficult by the Chinese tendency to use the term for "brother" or "sister" when talking about cousins