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TIL Cablevision was actually founded by Charles Dolan, who was also the creator of HBO

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e0774 TIL in Northern Canada, polar bears are not allowed to break into your house and steal your food. You can call the police and have them arrested. There is a special jail for polar bears who steal food.
1aJMW TIL that of the almost 200 countries in the world, only 22 have never been invaded by Great Britain.
j6ZLQ TIL that in 2012, prior to her wrestling career, WWE’s Gigi Dolin starred in a season 1 episode of My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding. In the episode her family spends big money on a dress to help find her a suitable bachelor. She was 14 at the time.
N6xQ TIL that the words ‘idiot,’ 'imbecile,’ and 'moron’ were originally medical categories for intellectual disability
wL9WW TIL Chroniclers of Germanic peoples traced the ancestry of their kings back to the god Wōden (Odin). If such descents were true, Queen Elizabeth II would be a descendant of Woden, via the kings of Wessex.