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TIL more than half the population of Canada lives south of Seattle

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wWr6 TIL Tara Strong, voice actress on Powerpuff Girls, Rugrats, Teen Titans, Hello Kitty, Ultimate Spider Man, Princess Mononoke, and many more, was given a visa into the US as an “Alien of Extraordinary Ability.”
v1yx4 TIL that in the Roman Empire "Black people were generally not excluded from any profession, and there was usually no stigma or bias against mixed race relationships in Antiquity."
baE7 TIL that Mayday procedure was originated Frederick Stanley Mockford which was given the task to think of a word that would indicate distress and would easily be understood by all pilots and ground staff in an emergency.
GAAn1 TIL AirPods are "difficult if not impossible" to recycle and not designed to be repairable.
vDwB TIL Scarlett Johansson auditioned for the lead role in “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,” but was considered too “sexy.” The role went to Rooney Mara instead.