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TIL that tap water in Canada is held to a higher health standard than bottled water.

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9wOVm TIL that there is an Ancient Egyptian text from around 1000 BCE titled "The Immortality of Writers," including the quote "Man decays, his corpse is dust. All his kin have perished; But a book makes him remembered through the mouth of its reciter."
p8xje TIL a 14 year old pretended to work for “Canadian News” and scored at 40 minute interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
vkJ8 TIL that during the American Revolutionary War, it is estimated that over twice as many American fighters died from disease (17,000+) as from battle (6,800).
vPv8B TIL about the Battle of Crysler’s Farm where a British-Canadian force managed to hold off an American army nearly 10x their size.
gEr4 TIL that there is a tribe in Papua New Guinea where the women ambush men for sex and can urinate on him and bite off his eyebrow and eyelashes if they aren’t satisfied!