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TIL one Canadian group controls 72% of the maple syrup supply in the world

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vrXL TIL: The Mormon Church says that 57% of Tonga is Mormon….but in a recent census, only 18% of Tongans claimed the religion.
VBmLm TIL Intels CPU branding (i3, i5, i7, i9) is based on the amount of defective sections in the integrated circuit of a CPU.
WkWjY TIL Bob the Railway dog would hitch rides on the South Australian Railways system, travelling thousands of miles sitting in front of the coal space. He had no master but was loved by engineers and trainmen. He was given a collar that read- Stop me not, but let me jog, For I am Bob, the drivers dog.
4XAX5 TIL that the Syndey Opera House is considered one of the worst project managerment failures of our time. It was 10 years late, 14 times over budget, the architect never saw it completed and the project manager never worked on another project in his career (he became a lecturer at Hawaii Uni)
woboY TIL that zircon crystals help scientists date the Earth because their uranium atoms slowly turn into lead over billions of years. The oldest zircons, found in Australia, are over 4 billion years old.