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TIL Canada has a Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve

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BgKvr TIL that over half of the world’s internet users got online for the first time after 2010. As of 2021, there were about 4.9 billion internet users globally, up from 2 billion in 2010.
E187o TIL that the Department of Energy will warn future humans 10,000 years from now about the presence of buried nuclear waste in New Mexico with 32 25-foot granite pillars. The pillars will be engraved with pictograms and warnings in many languages, along with buried magnets and radar reflectors.
R7y18 TIL between 6,000 & 9,000 years ago, the people of the Levant decorated the skulls of their dead with plaster, gave them shells for eyes, and painted intricate details of hair and moustaches on them. It's not known why.
oBLeK TIL Saccorhytus coronarius, a 535-million year old sea creature, is also the earliest known ancestor of humans.
7LWx TIL Andy Warhol was shot and seriously wounded by a radical feminist, who spent only 3 years in prison for the crime.