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TIL despite most of the them being right-handed, 70% of Canadian hockey players use left-handed sticks. This is the opposite of US players (70% righty sticks)… and no one knows why.

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0wdVL TIL that Charles Curtis, the 31st vice-president of the United States, was of Native American ancestry and was enrolled as a member of the Kaw-Nation. English was his third language after Kansa and French.
m15GP TIL that Friedrich Engels had a famously strong libido. He had numerous affairs and, despite his condemnation of prostitution as "exploitation of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie", also paid for sex. In 1846, he wrote to Marx that "if there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living".
x6OKB TIL that in 2011, a woman sued P. Diddy for 1 Trillion Dollars, claiming he was behind the 9/11 Attacks, and was the father of her child.
LQV7Q TIL about Avoidance Speech, a group of sociolinguistic phenomena in which a special restricted speech style must be used in the presence of or in reference to certain relatives
Y7BQG TIL: North American Water and Power Alliance. A 1950s plan to get water from Alaska and Canada to the US South West using canals, reservoirs and nuclear power pumping stations. Estimated cost of $100B in 1975 ($500B today's dollars).