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

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Dl1v TIL that in 1997, Apple released a special edition Mac that was nearly $10,000. It would be delivered and installed by a man in a tuxedo.
9KWG TIL That contrary to popular belief, Einstein was an excellent student
KOnr9 TIL about Project Azorian. In 1974 the CIA built a gigantic claw and lowered it three miles to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to snag the entire wreck of a sunken Soviet submarine. And they partially succeeded.
wL0X1 TIL that the Ethiopia uses the Coptic Calendar which is seven to eight years behind the Gregorian Calendar, meaning it is currently 2012.
lomKr TIL that the creator of Spongebob, the late Stephen Hillenburg, actually has a species of sponge named after him! Clathria hillenburgi lives in mangroves off the coast of Brazil, and was described in 2019, about a year after Hillenburg's passing.