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EJ0w TIL Jimmy Wales founded a porn site in order to acquire the initial funding to create Wikipedia.
4X95 TIL that Billy Madison was shot entirely in Canada
Yp5dB TIL - In 1953 the US government did secret tests by dumping chemicals on Canadian cities. They pretended they were testing defensive technology, but in reality the tests were biological and chemical weapons.
p8LJe TIL the word rooster was coined by English colonial protestants in the 1700s as an alternative to the word cock, in order to avoid the vulgar connotations. Until relatively recent times, this was primarily an Americanism, with most of the English speaking world still using cock for a male chicken.
dD5Gj TIL about Harry Washington, a slave owned by George Washington who escaped to fight for the British during the Revolutionary War, fled to Canada after the war, and eventually joined a rebellion against the British in Sierra Leone