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TIL almost 1/3 of Canadians under 34 still live at home

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BgMVr TIL Medieval Pilgrims Apparently Tried to Ward Off the Plague With Bawdy Badges
r1x TIL KFC had to pay the real Colonel Sanders $1 Million to stop publicly hating on their chicken
E8bd TIL that in 2012 a dad in Canada was arrested and strip searched after his 4 year old daughter drew a gun in school. She said he used it to shoot “bad guys and monsters.” He didn’t own a gun.
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9DvM TIL In France, where tennis first became popular, a big, round zero on the scoreboard looked like an egg and was called l’oeuf, which is French for “egg.” When tennis was introduced in the US, Americans pronounced it “love.”