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TIL 80% of Canadian women use contraception, only 64% of American women do.

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E1nXP TIL that in 1958, Canada set off one of the largest intentional non-nuclear explosions in history to remove a rock in the middle of a shipping lane. A tunnel half a mile long was dug out under the ocean and filled with 2.75 million pounds of explosive.
ZpxGD TIL foreign investors estimated the Confederacy had a 42% chance of winning the Civil War, just before the Battle of Gettysburg
Ooakg TIL that there have been at least six instances of chimpanzees stealing and eating human babies.
QJLma TIL that the earth was known to be spherical by most European scholars since the 3rd century bc
rGxM TIL that George Jung, from the movie ‘Blow’, is getting released from prison this year, in November.