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TIL Illegally smuggling toilets out of Canada and into the United States is an actual thing. Toilets in Canada are 3.5gal per flush and we’re made illegal by the EPA for water conservation.

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a8GQ9 TIL that in 1933, a man named A.L. Kahn caught a massive 20-foot, 5,000-pound manta ray off the coast of New Jersey. It took hours, the help of his crew, and even several dozen gunshots from the U.S. Coast Guard to finally reel in what was called a "devil fish."
QBRe TIL Nearly half the gold ever mined has come from one place: Witwatersrand, South Africa.
kJwGm TIL Kim Jong-il didn't understand that movies were fictional. He liked James Bond, Rambo, and Hong Kong action movies, but would watch them "as if they were records of reality."
VBJO0 TIL because of constant famines during the British Raj Indian genes got starvation adapted and resistant to insulin. As a result, today Indians are four and six times more likely to get type 2 diabetes than white people. Over 100 million people have diabetes in India.
Gn91 TIL according to NASA Las Vegas is the brightest city on Earth.