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TIL: In the Canadian province of Quebec, people who died during the winter must be cremated or interred by 15 May.

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X0jyX TIL in the 90s an Indian Transcendental Meditation guru founded a planned city near Fairfield Iowa called the Maharishi Vedic City. The city uses a special type of architecture which it claims promotes happiness and peace.
wGNY TIL that in 1984 the Key West Police Department was declared a criminal enterprise.
jNZ8a TIL in 2003 a high school football player set a new record for career passing yardage; he later found out that both teams' coaches had conspired in his last game to ensure he'd beat the record, and he requested that the yardage from that game be expunged from his record, relinquishing the record
bk4j TIL Russia owns an area of land the size of a small country in mainland Europe, with a population of 1 million. It is not connected to Russia by land and is sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland.
joBj TIL: The place where Hitler started the Nazi party is now an Apple shop