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TIL Canada was almost invaded in 1873 by an army of angry Minnesotans

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PYv6V TIL that -according to a report on the situation in Northern Ireland from 1969- laws and conditions in Northern Ireland had been cited by the South African government to justify its apartheid system.
D1p9V TIL telephone companies created the phenomenon of 555 telephone numbers in movies and TV shows, and 555-0100 through 555-0199 are still held back from the the public for "fictional use"
rRPMy TIL about the Disney movie "John Carter" (2012), one of the most expensive films ever made, with a net budget of $263 million, and simultaneously one of the, if not the worst box office bomb ever, even adjusted for inflation. The movie resulted in a $200 million loss for Walt Disney Pictures.
9YLwr TIL John Jameson, founder of Jameson’s Irish Whiskey, was actually Scottish.
5M8 TIL that a 2400 year old corpse was so well preserved, that the finders reported it to the police as a murder.