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TIL After Stephen Colbert called Windsor (Ontario) ‘the Earth’s rectum’ the CBC made a poll on their website asking if the description was good for the city and 85% said Yes.

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eRLD TIL: Lebron James raised 6 million dollars for charity by televising “The Decision”
x61W0 TIL King James the First liked to play tennis. He knocked so many balls off the court and down an old drain leading from the abbey that he ordered for the passage to be blocked. 3 days later, assassins arrived to kill him. He tried to escape through the passage but it was blocked and he was murdered
rNded TIL in the mid-60s, Canadian composer Galt MacDermot, who was then a 38 year old father of four, was offered to compose the music for the hippie-rock musical “Hair”. Galt admitted that he had no clue what a hippie even was, but was “enthusiastic to do a rock-and-roll show.”
nWllY TIL that European trucks are rarely sold in the US was due to a 25% retaliatory tariff (aka the "Chicken Tax") on European trucks, which was put into place after European countries got together and imposed tariffs on imported chickens from the US.
XEPBD TIL The rise of publishing by the eighteenth century led to the use of newspapers and cheap editions of popular books for cleansing after using the toilet