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TIL that every Canadian citizen in Canada can vote, including convicts and persons diagnosed with mental illness, with one exception - the Chief Electoral Officer.

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Melk7 Today I learned that female navels were banned from American television from 1951 to 1983.
5nAQ TIL Steve Irwin was afraid of Parrots.
OPV1 TIL after wheelchair bound Rapper MF Grimm was sentenced to life he paid a one-day bail of $100,000, he then recording an entire album in those twenty-four hours of freedom.
7wPx TIL Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, died of digestion problems in 1771 after eating a meal of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring, champagne, and 14 servings of his favorite dessert, semla in a bowl of hot milk. He is remembered by schoolchildren as “the king who ate himself to death.”
MeNkK TIL that landlocked country of Mongolia maintains a Navy which consists of 1 tugboat and 7 sailors, 6 of whom do not know how to swim.The boat is placed in Mongolia's largest lake & after privatization of the Navy by the government it now supplements its income by hauling freight and tourists around