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TIL It’s illegal to enter Canada with a DUI

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wokYM TIL housecats are responsible for an annual bird mortality, estimated to be 1.3 to 4.0 billion. And mammal mortality likely 6.3 to 22.3 billion individuals. In the US alone.
5V1Xr TIL the phrase "dingos ate your baby" used as a joke in comedies like Seinfeld and The Sinpsons originates from a chilling case in Australia where wild dingos snatched a 9-week-old girl from her tent during a camping trip
dDnX8 TIL the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, has a dedicated team of people called the "String Similarity Panel" to check if applications for new "generic top-level domains" (gTLDs, e.g.: .com, .org, .net) are similar to existing top-level domains (TLDs).
0NXA TIL Coco Chanel was a Nazi Spy. “Chanel was a consummate opportunist. The Nazis were in power, and Chanel gravitated to power. It was the story of her life.”
egab TIL that after Boromir had a dream urging him to seek Rivendell to the north, it took him a hundred and ten days to arrive, just barely making it in time for Elrond’s council. Tolkien wrote that the “courage and hardihood required was not fully recognized by the narrative”.