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

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oBeEo TIL in order to prevent tourists from stealing their beer glasses, some bars in Belgium require people to hand over one of their shoes as a deposit which is then put in a basket and hung from the ceiling. This shoes basket has also become an attraction.
VBK4D TIL in the 1940s and 50s, a vast labyrinth of subterranean tunnels were dug into the frozen permafrost underneath Novy Port in Siberia for cold storage. It's been called the world’s largest natural refrigerator. The tunnels run for more than a kilometer and has some 200 small side tunnels and caves.
OGyX4 TIL before she played elderly Rose in 1997 Best Picture winner Titanic, actress Gloria Stuart had been in one other film nominated for Best Picture... the 1934 film Here Comes the Navy