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TIL Canada has banned members of the Westboro Baptist Church from entering their country due to hate speech.

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E118w TIL The Icelandic for 'sleep' is sofa.
loJbr TIL of the marquis de Favras, who upon reading his death sentence, remarked "I see that you have made three spelling mistakes"
QNrXp TIL in 90% of cases when a pregnant woman's water breaks, it's not an emergency because it happens after she went into labour, unlike in movies when it happens before and it indicates that she's going into labour
b6Poj TIL: “Laika” is the name of husky-like breeds of dogs in Russian … but the famous Space Dog—whose name was Laika—was just a mutt, not one of those breeds.
9g5G TIL that the inventor of the first ever video game also helped to invent the first nuclear bomb.