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TIL Canadians make a candy called tire d'érable by pouring maple syrup on snow, then rolling it onto sticks.

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x6mDg TIL of Danionella cerebrum — a tiny fish that is louder than an elephant. This fish blasts sounds at 140 decibels using special drumming muscles. Adults measure only 10–13.5 mm in size and have a brain volume of just 0.6 mm3 which is thus far the smallest known adult vertebrate brain.
0wB71 TIL That Punxsutawney Phil (the season predicting groundhog) is allegedly immortal from drinking the secret “elixir of life”, at the groundhog picnic each year. His wife, Phyllis does not receive the elixir and is not immortal
dkdB TIL a man who was lost in the woods chopped down some power lines so that workers would have to come and rescue him.
LeXP TIL that the “loose lips sink ships” propaganda campaign in WWII was not really designed to keep shipping information from German agents but rather to keep American morale up by not communicating how many US ships were being sunk by Germany
ZpddQ TIL of Gorpcore, a style trend that emerged in the 2020s that consists of wearing high-end technical clothing for outdoor recreation (from brands like The North Face, Patagonia, and Arc'teryx) in explicitly non-technical urban and suburban settings.