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TIL that mothers in Canada can get up to a year of maternity leave, whereas the max amount in the U.S. is only 12 weeks.

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vPjJL TIL That Andrea Evans, who played Tina Lord on One Life to Live, withdrew from public life for almost a decade after dealing with a stalker who tried to kill her in the ABC Studios where the soap was filmed.
AD85g TIL of a natural phenomenon called radiative cooling which the ancient Persians exploited to create ice, even when temperatures were above freezing
KBd4 [TIL] Muhammad Ali’s IQ was found to be in the 16th percentile, protecting him from the draft
WJV9 TIL Many investigators believed that some if not all the crew of The Challenger disaster survived the explosion unharmed and were conscious for the full 2 minutes 45 seconds it took for the Crew Cabin to return to Earth, before being killed by collision force when the module hit the sea.
pY44b TIL of a man who was discovered to be unknowingly missing 90% of his brain, and was living a normal life.