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

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wYk1 TIL - In 1868, a French captain observing the execution of 20 samurai by seppuku (ritual suicide by disembowelment) was so horrified by the act that he gave pardons to 9 of the remaining samurai.
69bll TIL that India is the highest producer of movies in the world followed by Nigeria and US on an annual basis for the last few years.
xVkdB TIL that while Coca-Cola denies it designed "New Coke" to fail and create demand for "Coca Cola Classic" the period when "old" coke was off the market also helped mask the final transition from real sugar in the original recipe to High Fructose Corn Syrup in Coke Classic.
VBXjB TIL George Leonidas Leslie was responsible for about 80% of all bank robberies in the US in the late 1800s. By day he was a distinguished architect who hobnobbed with New York City’s elite, but by night he was one of history’s most prolific bank robbers.
loGY5 TIL that Liechtenstein & Uzbekistan are the only two double landlocked countries in the world. A country is "doubly landlocked" or "double-landlocked" when it is surrounded only by landlocked countries (requiring the crossing of at least two national borders to reach a coastline)