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TIL Every year about 10,000 containers fall off ships to the sea

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M7PEA TIL that many printers secretly add microscopic yellow tracking dots to every printed page, encoding the date, time, and printer's serial number to trace documents back to their source.
KOGZB TIL Canada used to operate aircraft carriers
16OPD TIL Denver International Airport (Colorado, USA) occupies 52.4 square miles (136 sq km), making DIA larger in land area (excluding water) than the US cities of Boston, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California.
LQb8P TIL: In 2015, 17 people died and 497 were injured at a water park concert in New Taipei by being being burned alive. Concert organizers did a "color powder party", the cloud of colored cornstarch caught on fire after being fired into the crowd due to deflagration. The fire lasted only 40 seconds.
lo8lN TIL that cheese can cost three times more in Canada then in the U.S.