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

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0bJM TIL A woman (registered nurse) was watching the show “Flip or Flop” on HGTV and noticed a lump on hosts neck. Emailed production company to make them aware and host ended up having thyroid cancer and didn’t know.
6Eynl TIL James Parkinson, the man who Parkinson's disease was named for, was implicated in a plot to assassinate King George III
16GvV TIL that there was a real "Lord of the Flies" when six boys were shipwrecked on a island for 15 months
ME40 TIL Cartoon Network banned an episode of Cow and Chicken called “Buffalo Gals” which allegedly implied lesbian stereotypes including the Gals being mistaken for men and the line “Oh! the Buffalo Gals, a motorcycle riding gang that randomly breaks into people’s homes and chews on their carpets.”
rKNe TIL: In the 1730s, a seven-year-old English girl washed up on the shores of West Africa and was adopted by her rescuers. She became the wife of a Prince and started a dynasty that extends into many of today’s Xhosa royal families.