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TIL in an episode of his show “Triumph of the Will” comedian Kenny Hotz successfully rallied the Jewish community in Toronto to finance and build a Mosque for Muslims as a token of peace between the two cultures.

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9YavM TIL the voice acting in the original Resident Evil was so bad because the English actors had no idea of the context of their lines and the Japanese devs picked whatever take sounded the best to them.
69e9w TIL: former LDS president Gordon B. Hinckley had a homosexual and prostitution sex scandal that made National news in the 1990’s
mxwJO TIL about the Canadian HMCS Haida, which became known as "The Fightingest Ship in the Navy" after sinking 14 German ships and submarines in just over a year during WW2. The Haida went on to take part in the Korean War, and now serves as a museum ship and national historic site in Canada.
wLddW TIL actress Tippi Hedren is directly responsible for over half of the manicurists in the country (and 80 percent in Southern California) being Vietnamese.
4XdXo TIL about the Peshtigo fire the deadliest wildfire in US history that killed around 1500 people. It's almost unknown because the more famous Great Chicago Fire happened on the same day.