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TIL Canada has a strategic maple syrup reserve

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p8DNG TIL There were only two groups in Sparta that could have their names inscribed in their tombstones: mothers who died giving life and soldiers who fell in battle.
yBOv TIL that in 2011, 22 fake Apple stores were uncovered in just one Chinese city.
rJAW TIL The United States still executes prisoners by firing squad. The last prisoner executed by firing squad was in 2010 in Utah.
78NoM TIL the developers of Among Us accidentally violated the Geneva Conventions by depicting a red cross on a medbay, which is legally protected under international law.
gMygy TIL of the city of Salonica in modern day Greece was for centuries one of the only Jewish majority cities but during Nazi occupation 90% of the Jewish residents were murdered and their cultural artifacts plundered, houses stolen, and the cemetery dug up and the headstones used as building material.