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TIL Canada’s debt has increased 25.4% since ‘Conservative’ Stephen Harper was first elected as PM in 2006.

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dD807 TIL A lady from 15th Century England called Julia Berners is responsible for starting the tradition of giving animal groups whimsical names.
VM4R8 TIL of James Tilly Matthews, an 18th-century peace activist who fell under the delusion that his thoughts were being remotely controlled by an apparatus he called the “Air Loom”. His case is considered to be an early example of paranoid schizophrenia.
W7Myd TIL that there are birds called "boobies"
gy4A TIL Shirley Temple stopped believing in Santa when she visited a mall Santa and he asked for her autograph
41xa TIL: There is an Octopus species that cares for her eggs for 53 months, apparently not eating during this time, then dies. This brooding period is the longest known for any animal.