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TIL Canada is the most educated country in the world.

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xYj1 TIL naps are predominantly deep sleep and our body is wired for them.
lRGB TIL there is an area in China with so many Africans that it has the nickname Chocolate City
QYJe TIL that despite increases in computer power, each Shrek movie has taken about twice as many hours to render as the one before it. Dreamworks calls this “Shrek’s Law”.
bNo0 TIL in 1942, a Finnish engineer Thor Damen secretly recorded 11 minutes of a conversation between Adolf Hitler and Finnish Defence Chief Gustaf Mannerheim. It is the only known recording of Hitler’s normal voice.
GAGl1 TIL Honeybee venom rapidly kills aggressive breast cancer cells and when the venom's main component is combined with existing chemotherapy drugs, it is extremely efficient at reducing tumour growth in mice.