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TIL Canada has 8,500 rivers and 2 million lakes

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R7jk9 TIL the last name 'Fart' is the 2,921,133rd most commonly occurring family name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 169,468,245 people. The last name Fart occurs predominantly in Asia, where 47 percent of 'Farts' live; 44 percent live in West Asia and 44 percent live in Levant.
MewYm TIL that regardless of method, there is a right and wrong order for tying your shoelaces, and doing it wrong results in a "granny knot" that makes your laces come undone much more easily.
78GV7 TIL that in 2000 Andre Geim won the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for levitating a frog using magnets. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on graphene.
nWJkr TIL In 1835 The New York Sun published a series of articles claiming that there were bat-like humanoids living on the moon. The stories were entirely fictional, but they fooled some readers at the time.
WOmX TIL that before she became the first animal sent into orbit Laika (a stray dog from the streets of Moscow) was taken home by a Russian scientist to play with his children. He said, “I wanted to do something nice for her; she had so little time left to live”.