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TIL that since 1945, the Netherlands has sent Canada thousands of tulips every year as a thank-you for sheltering their royal family during WWII. This annual gift led to the creation of the famous Canadian Tulip Festival.

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R76A6 TIL Coca-Cola was purchased by Ernest Woodruff with other businessmen in 1919 for $25 million and first went public in 1919 at a price of $40 per share
V6V4 TIL that mathematician, George Price, proved the kindness doesn’t exist. However, he hated his equation so much he set out to prove it wrong by converting to Christianity, giving away all his belongings, and letting homeless sleep in his house. He failed and slashed his throat with scissors in 1975.
BkwD TIL that in 1968, the first instance on US television of physical contact between a black man (Harry Bellafonte) and a white woman (Petula Clark, who took hold of his arm when signing) made it to the screen only because Clark and her husband, destroyed all the takes where the contact did not occur.
lyB1 TIL that when asked what his song “American Pie” meant, Don McLean said “It means I don’t ever have to work again if I don’t want to.”
jNjXj RemoveDebris, a small experimental satellite designed to clean up space debris successfully snared its first piece of extraterrestrial pollution — a solar system premiere. Did you know that more than 7,600 tonnes of so-called "space junk" floats around Earth — the result of nearly 60 years of space exploration — with some moving faster than a speeding bullet at approximately 48,000 kilometres per hour (30,000 miles per hour).