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TIL that Tokyo has roughly the same population as Canada

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NbGE TIL that for every $1 invested in the Human Genome Project, $141 were generated for the economy
KOm5R TIL in 1976 a film called "All This and World War II" was released, which included a soundtrack of Beatles covers by various artists such as Peter Gabriel, Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne, Elton John, David Essex, Leo Sayer, the Bee Gees, Frankie Laine, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and Tina Turner.
R5M51 TIL Beginning in early 1942, the Canadian government detained and dispossessed more than 90 percent of Japanese Canadians, some 21,000 people, living in British Columbia. They were detained under the War Measures Act and were interned for the rest of the Second World War.
n90W TIL an ad agency successfully defeated a Tea Party push to defund and close a public library by pretending to be a Tea Party-ish organization called Safeguarding American Families, that was throwing a “Book Burning Party” to celebrate the library’s closing
AKWa TIL Stephen Colbert won’t let his children watch his show. He doesn’t want them to perceive him as insincere for their lack of understanding irony and sarcasm.