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TIL 43% of Canadians would rather have bacon than sex.

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5Y5WR TIL Scooby Doo’s real name is “Scoobert Doo”.
B89K TIL Through a process called grafting, a single tree has been developed that produces over forty different kinds of fruit, including peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines and cherries.
wLPZ6 TIL that singer Marvin Gaye was fatally shot the day before his birthday, by his own father (a Christian minister), by a gun that Marvin had gifted to him. Marvin was suicidal and physically hit his father because it was established that his father would kill any of his children who might do so.
pA4Q TIL that Kyoto was spared from much of the destruction of WWII. It was removed from the atomic bomb target list (which it had headed) by the personal intervention of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, who wanted to save this cultural center that he knew from his honeymoon.
GY6Gj TIL Nebraska is home to one of the top paid attractions in the USA, the Henry Doorly Zoo.