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TIL that Spider Lake Provincial Park is the smallest national park in Canada

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R5ZO6 TIL Camp Century was an Arctic United States military scientific research base in Greenland, it consisted of 21 tunnels through ice, with a total length of 9,800 feet (3.0 km) and was powered by a nuclear reactor
pmN8 TIL Michael Caine once said about his role in Jaws: The Revenge “I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”
gr144 TIL the screenplay of the original Planet of the Apes (1968) was written by Rod Serling, the same guy who created The Twilight Zone, and the famous ending was his creation.
e0r45 TIL about the Battle Of Yultong, where 1.4k Filipino troops fought against 40k Chinese troops, winning with only 12 KIAs, 38 wounded and 6 MIAs while killing 7.5k Chinese soldiers.
Br4pD TIL that both the penny and the nickel cost more to make than they're worth, and that up to 1982 the metal in a penny was worth more than the penny itself.