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TIL that after the American Revolution, 14,000 Loyalists fled to western Nova Scotia. They were treated poorly by the existing population, so Loyalists pressed for the creation of a “Loyalist colony” that would be “the envy of the American states”. The British created New Brunswick for them.

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X0G9j TIL Bob Moore, founder of Bob’s Red Mill, refused to sell to corporations, citing the Bible: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Instead, he gave his $100M company to his 700 employees via an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The company now sells in over 70 countries.
5VwDP TIL that Titan’s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth. Saturn’s moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to Cassini data.
QJgxe TIL in an interview printed in the New York Times in 1969, Vladimir Nabokov said, "I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile -- some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket."
40Qw TIL we say “pardon my French” after swearing because in the 19th century, English-speaking people would drop French phrases into conversation to display class, apologizing because many of their listeners wouldn’t know the language. Then people hid swear words under the pretense of them being French.
QNWm6 TIL Osama bin Laden played Animal Crossing: Wild World, New Super Mario Bros., Pokémon Diamond, and other DS games on an emulator while in hiding