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TIL that the number of continents changes depending on where you’ve been educated

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v1OOL TIL That the last time the US Government passed a budget on time was in 1996 (for FY 1997)
mxBDE TIL That my country Canada interred over 90% of Japanese Canadians residing in British Columbia during WWII. The majority of these 22,000 people were Canadian by birth. Measures were paid for in part by seizure and sale of the property of those interred and were not lifted until 1949.
LVdm TIL that before making “Team America,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone intended to make a shot-for-shot puppet parody of “The Day After Tomorrow.”
OG4lX TIL that aspiration pneumonia - a lung infection caused by breathing food or liquid - is relatively common in older hospitalized adults, is more common than other types of pneumonia, and causes death in over 1 in 5 occurences
E14nX TIL George H.W. Bush ordered emergency airlifts of food and supplies to Somalia in 1992.“Operation Restore Hope,” to help the starving country by protecting food shipments from the warlords. By helping to end the famine, American forces saved around 100,000 lives