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TIL that despite its cold climate, the province of Quebec (Canada) has the largest number of swimming pools per capita in North America, more than California or Florida.

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5V9YR TIL Former Major League Baseball All Star and Red Sox Hall of Fame member Kevin Youkilis was once described as looking like “a refrigerator repairman, a butcher, the man selling hammers behind the counter at the True Value hardware store."
YpQ4B Today I learned that pixie dust in Peter Pan was added later on because children reading the story would think they too could fly like Peter Pan. Apparently there was a rash of young children hurting themselves by trying to fly like pan
MeOPA TIL in 2009, speakers of Swabian German, a very distinct southern German dialect, voted Muggeseggele (=“scrotum of a housefly”) as the “Most beautiful Swabian word”, well ahead of any other terms. It is used to describe very small units of measure.
WDQX TIL General Mills’ Wheaties cereal contain so many metal fragments they could actually be lifted with a magnet
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