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TIL Canada has a Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve

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Y7WQx TIL that the 2024 Lebanon electronic device attacks carried out by Mossad was nicknamed Operation Grim Beeper
yQEww TIL China has the highest execution rate in the world, estimated to be in the thousands in 2019. Precise numbers are a "state secret".
WgYX TIL That a baby porcupine is called a porcupette.
KYkOJ TIL that only in 2012, Johannes Kepler, one of the founders of modern astronomy and modern science in general, was cleared from being a suspect in the possible murder of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, who employed him as an assistant at the time of his death.
QP0E TIL 300K miles have been logged in Google’s driverless cars, which use sensors and Google map technology to keep you on the road