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TIL that Canada has a large desert area, resembling the Sahara, with massive dunes. It borders Lake Athabasca and is surrounded in boreal forest.

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pld8 TIL On October 23, 1999, BASE jumper Jan Davis made a protest jump off El Capitan in Yosemite National Park to lift Yosemite’s BASE jumping ban. She died in the process. The ban remains intact.
ADMga TIL Nintendo created a video game based on the Popeye comic strip, but could not acquire licensing rights for the characters. Rather than scrap the work that was done, it released with a new cast - a plumber, his girlfriend, and a gorilla - and was renamed "Donkey Kong" after the game's antagonist.
eVwb TIL A grown man hunted down and attacked a child who killed him several time in Call of Duty
Z8XDR TIL Disney has a bedtime hotline you can call where you can speak to a Disney character (including Yoga and Spiderman) and they'll tell your kid to go to sleep.
JlrB TIL a man rescued a dying crocodile, looked after it, tried to release the croc into the wild, but the croc kept coming back. The two became ‘best friends’ and for the next 20 years, Chito (man) used to get into the water to SWIM, KISS, HUG, PLAY with ‘Pocho’ the 5-meter, 450kg croc.