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TIL In 1941-42, during ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the Nazi’s captured roughly 5.5 million Soviet prisoners of war resulting in one of the most concentrated mass killings in human history

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16Vr7 TIL that Dolphins sleep with one eye open
ErG7 TIL The Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) goes into effect July 1, 2014 and requires every “commercial email” to have express or implied consent (the law is applicable if the business is based outside of Canada)
X0X8R TIL newborn babies can contract herpes via contact with a person suffering from a cold sore and this is fatal in some cases.
ZeKR TIL “ArnoldC” is an imperative programming language where the basic keywords are replaced with quotes from different Arnold Schwarzenegger movies (Hello World code in comments).
m1Wpo TIL Petroglyphs Provincial Park, Ontario preserves one of the largest known concentrations of pre-contact rock carvings in Canada. Several hundred images were carved by Algonkian Indians between A.D. 900 - 1400