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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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jNyME TIL that the first Ten Commandments Monuments in the US were created for the purpose of promoting a Paramount Pictures film by Cecil B. DeMille in 1956
X0mJD TIL that despite being commonly ranked as one of the worst Christmas films ever made, the 1985 film “Santa Claus: The Movie” is immensely popular in the UK. One of the film actors, John Lithgow, said in 2019 that he wishes he had a nickel for every Englishman who’s told him it's their favorite film.
K15a TIL that in the early 1800s the British spent many hundred of thousands of pounds bribing countries to stop the slave trade
KE4G TIL in Lebanon the President must be a Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni, and the Speaker of Parliament a Shi'a
VBMQB TIL that much of what we know about narcolepsy comes from studies of Dachshunds, who can experience narcoleptic fits due to the excitement of receiving yummy tinned food