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

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MZJW TIL that during a critical moment in the Apollo 13 mission the Soviet Union discontinued radio transmissions in the frequency bands used by Apollo to prevent radio interference
D1pDe TIL that the higher concentration of dams/reservoirs in the northern hemisphere have caused the earth to spin faster on it's axis. As humans we hold more water in reservoirs than there is in all the rivers combined.
yQXge TIL: 53-year-old former Chicago Sun Times Publisher, James Tyree, died accidentally from an air embolism and the family won a ten million dollar wrongful death suit settlement.
v14kj TIL about invasive North American earth worms. All areas of North America that were covered in ice in the last ice age were devoid of worms before European colonization. If you've even encountered an earth worm north of the 45th parallel, it's almost guaranteed to be an Asian or European species.
nZ0b TIL that 98% of all adoptions in Japan are of adult men