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TIL that only 24% of Canadians know that Queen Elizabeth is their head of state

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OoZBX TIL that "it was a dark and stormy night," a catchphrase that has become shorthand for bad writing, comes from the opening line of the 1830 novel "Paul Clifford" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The phrase was first used in print by Washington Irving in his 1809 "A History of New York."
e0GG6 TIL about Lhakpa Sherpa, a Nepalese woman who has climbed Mount Everest 9 times, more than any other woman in the world
0dJ6A TIL the record for viewing a scripted TV show that MASH set in 1983 still stands at 106 million viewers. Super Bowl XLIV in 2010 surpassed it as most viewed but not for a scripted show.
WkYv8 TIL humans domesticated dogs before we domesticated potatoes
v1KVj TIL the cornea doesn't have blood vessels but instead is nourished by tears. The cornea remarkably can heal minor abrasions in under 72 hours.