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TIL in 1993 election, Canada's Progressvie Conservative Party lost 154 out of 156 seats. It was the worst election defeat in any Western democratic world.

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9Y1nG TIL: Parts of the Uplistsikhe cave-town hewn into the rocks of central Georgia date back to 1,000 BC. Archaeologists think the underground complex was still being lived-in in the 1400s. (Georgia the country, not the state)
y1K8 TIL that in 2010, Pauley Perrette, the quirky goth scientist girl from NCIS had the 3rd highest Q Score (likability) of any actor working, the same as Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman.
kXb1 TIL Apples, peaches,and raspberries are all members of the rose family.
Q6Qd TIL Most all road signs in the US are made by prison inmates
kO7bg TIL that if the ratio between the nuclear strong force and the electromagnetic force had been off by the tiniest fraction of the tiniest fraction—by even one part in 100,000,000,000,000,000—then no stars could have ever formed