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

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v1Q6K TIL a peregrine falcon was clocked at 242 mph in a dive. A trained falcon kept pace with a skydiver, and that was as fast as the skydiver could go.
JZR1 TIL Linux 4.0’s codename is “Hurr durr I'ma sheep”
GBM5 TIL:Ernest Hemingway survived,anthrax,pneumonia, dysentery,diabetes,high blood pressure,two successive plane crashes that resulted in ruptured kidney and liver, broken skull, second degree burns, and numerous other accidents, then won the Nobel Prize in Literature and eventually committed suicide.
kOm6E TIL that Samuel L. Jackson’s lightsaber in Revenge of the Sith had BMF etched into the switch.
epD1k TIL that King's School, Canterbury, is Britain's oldest public school; and is arguably the oldest continuously operating school in the world, since education on the Abbey and Cathedral grounds has been uninterrupted since AD 597.