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TIL That not only do dogs have a sense of time, but they can also distinguish certain days of the week from others

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69A4X TIL that in the province of Alberta, if you find a fossil that does not require excavation on Crown Land (public areas) you are the custodian of that fossil. You may keep the fossil in your possession but the fossil is owned by the province and therefore cannot be sold or removed from the province.
WxPA TIL in the United States, murder rates are higher in more religious states and lower in less religious states.
rRwyy TIL - When Icelandic people are born they do not take the same last name of their parents. Instead they take their fathers first name and add "son" (son) if you are a boy, or "dottir" (daughter) if you are a girl, to create their last name.
VMmZD TIL that France still has a territory in the Canadian Maritimes.
QNLEp TIL Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon, the person who played the child in "Boyhood," uses the singular they pronoun and rejects the gender binary. "For me, the binary gender demarcation always has felt just kind of like … a charade, like this character that I have to play."