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TIL After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Canada declared war on Japan before the US did

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W7QVB TIL of socialite Ida Wood: in 1907 she emptied her 1 million dollar bank account(21 million in today's money), declared she was “tired of everything" and shut herself in a hotel room along with her sisters. She stepped out of the room for the first time 24 years later
XOMR TIL that the Ichthys symbol (The Jesus Fish) was a pagan symbol of fertility, which included representing the Vulva of Isis.
4da6 TIL that the Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
GANPN TIL about the Gävle goat, a Swedish Christmas display of a giant wooden goat which, despite this never being part of the tradition and being very illegal, has been burned down by arson almost every year since 1966
61QY TIL Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson once published his bank details in a national newspaper to prove it was safe. Later a large donation was made to animal charity in his name.