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TIL Canada has a Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve

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WW1d TIL Over a 20 month period, Elton John spent £293,000 on flowers. When asked in court if that was possible, he replied “Yes, I like flowers”
B6d TIL that a high school girl became the first person to fold paper in half 12 times. She also derived the mathematical equation that describes the limit of paper folding
KYVN4 TIL that the Nebra Sky Disc, a 3,600-year-old bronze artifact discovered in Germany, is the world's oldest known physical depiction of the cosmos with gold symbols for the sun, moon, and stars, including the Pleiades. The disc encodes accurate, useful celestial observation in a portable object.
bGAp TIL in 1906 the Bronx Zoo exhibited a Congolese pygmy man named Ota Benga in its Monkey House where he slept in a hammock and shot a bow and arrow at a target. Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of his suicide.
8a6pb TIL The husband of British writer Angelica Garnett (a niece of Virginia Woolf) had once been a lover of her biological father. She later dated a painter who had also been one of her father's lovers.