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

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B6aW TIL Queens of the Stone Age chose the name because they felt “Kings of the Stone Age” was too macho. “Rock should be heavy enough for the boys and sweet enough for the girls. That way everyone’s happy and it’s more of a party. Kings of the Stone Age is too lopsided.”
lo5lG TIL Nara was the capital of Japan from 710 to 784 CE. The Nara Period produced some of the most important temples still in use today, including at Todaiji, the largest wooden building in the world at that time, which still houses the largest bronze statue of Buddha ever made
5kpB TIL in 2013, Escape from Tomorrow was covertly filmed on location at Disneyland and Walt Disney World without Disney’s permission or knowledge, keeping their scripts on their iPhones and shooting on handheld video cameras similar to those used by park visitors.
x6MEB TIL a Dutch teenager who was going bungee jumping in Spain fell to her death when the instructor who had poor English said “no jump” but she thought he said “now jump”
8av8V TIL that plague is not a synonym for epidemic, but actually a specific disease. Bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic plague are all caused by the same bacteria: Yersinia Pestis