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TIL that over 90% of the population of Canada lives within 100 miles of the U.S. border.

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GYpGg TIL in 2014, a small Japanese village tried to set up a monument to remember the WW2 Korean slaves that died in the region, but were forced to stop by Japanese ultranationalists. These ultranationalists have also been successful in the removal of other monuments of contrition around Japan.
V4KD TIL that blind people can get a miniature guide horse if they don’t want a guide dog or are allergic to dogs.
R5poj TIL that English poet Robert Southey was expelled from Westminster School for writing an article attributing the invention of flogging to the Devil.
RdAQ TIL of Albert Battel, a German officer serving in the Wehrmacht during WWII, who commanded his whole unit to protect Jews and threatened the SS to kill them if they crossed a bridge into a Jewish ghetto to round them up.
nbb TIL there’s a type of fish called Slippery dick, and a full grown Slippery dick can be 12 inches long