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TIL 62% of citizens in Copenhagen ride a bicycle daily to work or education

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5l9 TIL you can go into shops/restaurants on Google Maps in Japan
KYD1G TIL US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is the frontman for his own band called Ablinken, with songs such as “Lip Service” published on Spotify
rRWBy TIL that two out of three French Canadians are descended from just 800 women, the so-called "Filles du Roi" [Daughters of the King], who were mostly poor women, many of them orphans, imported into New France between 1663 and 1673.
lX1a TIL women in Paris were officially not allowed to wear trousers until this year.
pD68 TIL that a newspaper posted a poll asking readers if watching Blackfish – a documentary critical of SeaWorld for keeping orcas captive – changed their opinions of SeaWorld. The results were “No.” It was later revealed that 55% of the votes came from a single IP-address … hosted by SeaWorld