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TIL that by typing in the cheat code ‘O CANADA’ in the games Age of Mythology/AoE3, you could spawn a near-invincible 1,400lb Canadian Lazer Bear that flies with a Canadian flag cape and shoots laser beams from its eyes.

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Y70Rv TIL hummingbirds, numbering about 340 species, are only found in the wild in North and South America. There are birds that drink nectar in Africa and Asia, and they are also small and colorful like hummingbirds, but they are called sunbirds.
1OMX TIL air conditioning in the United States has a global-warming impact equivalent to every US household driving an extra 10,000 miles per year
mJeM TIL in roughly 800 AD, a nobleman was ordered to trial by combat against the faithful dog of a man he was suspected of murdering. The dog won. (more details inside, this really is a must read)
d8aZd TIL A hot spring hotel in Japan is the world's oldest and has been running continuously for roughly 1300 years by the 52 generations of the same family.
kJdQW TIL Sitting Bull was told to give a welcome speech to a new train line in Bismarck. Instead of giving the pre-written speech he said in his native language: “"I hate you. I hate all the white people. You are thieves and liars. You have taken away our land and made us outcasts."