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TIL As a British colony in the 1870s, Prince Edward Island was first promoted as a place to get away from the high-pressured society of North America. Many Americans saw Canada as a foreign land that resembled the old country of England but without the bustle

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d8Zk7 TIL Max Mosley, former head of the FIA, once sued a tabloid for writing "F1 Boss has Sick Nazi Orgy with Five Hookers" claiming that while he did engage in a BDSM orgy set in a German prison, the orgy was not Nazi-themed. He won.
oro TIL of a seeing-eye goose that leads around a blind dog.
yQOJ TIL WoW experienced a virtual epidemic (later studied by epidemiologists), with some players volunteering healing services and others directing players away from infected areas.
loKRK TIL in 1887 a reporter named Nellie Bly talked her way into an insane asylum in New York and published her experience after ten days in the asylum. She claimed many of the patients seemed completely sane and the conditions were horrid. This led to NYC budgeting $1,000,000 to care of the insane.
DQ46r TIL about "glacier mice": mysterious balls of moss found in icy environments that move in herds at about 1inch a day. How they form and how/why they move is unknown.