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TIL nearly 10% of Canadians have had sex in a canoe

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e04Vb TIL that during WWI, France built a 'Fake Paris' near its capital city to confuse German pilots.
gM7E7 TIL: During the 14th century ships arriving in Venice from infected ports were required to sit at anchor for 40 days. This practice is where we get the word "quarantine" from the Italian "quaranta" meaning "forty"
lW97 TIL dogs tilt their head when we talk to them so they can see our facial expressions better, as their muzzle blocks out the lower half of our faces.
e098k TIL: "The Silent Majority" originally meant dead people, as in there's more dead people than living. It was first used in politics in 1919, but didnt become mainstream until used in a book read by Nixon that used "the silent majority" to contrast "the vocal minority."
yVvya TIL about Meridianiite, a material which contains more water per volume than pure water itself.