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TIL Canada has the most lakes in the world, with 62% of the world's lakes located in Canada

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d89KZ TIL of The Great Disappointment: a reaction to the failure of a preacher's proclamation that Jesus would return to Earth on October 22, 1844. When nothing happened, many groups reacted with violence, including a group in Toronto being tarred and feathered.
PYWNZ TIL that Leonard Adleman said "Well, it's going to be the least important paper I've ever been on" when accepting to be a part of development of the RSA algorithm.
EoZx TIL: The American Lung Association states that,“In fact, when equal amounts of marijuana and tobacco are smoked, marijuana deposits four times as much tar into the lungs. This is because marijuana joints are un-filtered and often more deeply inhaled than cigarettes.”
woLN6 TIL each day there are over 100,000 planes flying around the world
RwGw TIL a man once set up a TV station to combat negative stereotypes about Muslims, only to then go ahead and behead his wife.