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TIL 26.5 million Canadians tuned into the gold medal final in men’s hockey during the 2010 Winter Olympics. That’s 80% of the entire country’s population.

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kYW7 TIL That only one victim of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Frank Gusenberg, was still alive when police arrived on the scene. When questioned by the police about the shooting, despite reportedly having fourteen bullets in his body, his only response was “nobody shot me”.
yp0a TIL that in the first study to show hormonal bonding between humans and another species, it was found that staring into your dog’s eyes causes a rise in oxytocin - the same hormone that bonds human mothers to infants.
l7no7 TIL it takes roughly 500,000 gallons of water (≈2000 tons) to produce 1 ton of lithium
oVAK TIL that in addition to having mild winters, Greece has a period of about two weeks around the end of January in which the climate is like summer’s. It’s been going on every year and for at least 3000 years!
grXEL TIl that curly hair gave early humans an evolutionary advantage and made our brains bigger