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TIL In addition to having the world's longest land border (with the USA), Canada also has the world's longest maritime border (with Greenland).

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kBgW TIL that between 1885 and 1887 Alfred Barnard visited every working whisk(e)y distillery in Great Britain and Ireland. He went on to publish a 500 page book: “The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom,” one of the definitive texts on whisky. Two years later did the same thing for breweries.
mx7Gv TIL: 80% of solitare games are winnable. But often one bad move can ruin it.
gdVX TIL That a billboard located in Lima, Peru produces around 100 liters of water a day (about 26 gallons) from nothing more than humidity, a basic filtration system and a little gravitational ingenuity
VbdD TIL in 1927 an experiment was begun to show that solid pitch was actually a liquid. 89 years later the pitch has produced 9 drips.
oyYE TIL that Tolstoy and Gandhi were pen pals for years