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TIL that Canada is the world's biggest producer (33%) and exporter (80%) of lentils.

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Me7Jm TIL Harvard Business Review suggests playing WoW for teambuilding with a remote boss/team.
ey74 TIL a teenage Mozart, while visiting Rome, heard “Miserere Mei, Deus” and copied it on paper by ear. The Vatican threatened excommunication for distributing the work, but when the pope heard of the prodigy transcribing it by ear, he showered the 14 year old with praise.
M7M6A TIL that some people dream in black and white https://www.thelist.com/434087/the-weird-reason-people-dream-in-black-and-white
woAV1 TIL Ming-Na Wen'S first acting job was on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
eAmn TIL Carrie Fisher and George Lucas appear in the 1991 movie “Hook” (as uncredited extras, the kissing couple on the bridge).