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Today I learned that Canadians say sorry so much that a law had to be passed saying that apologies aren't admissions of guilt.

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4kdpb TIL: There is a place in Australia called Mount Disappointment, the peak offered the early explorers a disappointing view and a groin injury was involved in the climb.
gJ9X TIL According to a new study, during sex, only 65% of straight women orgasm compared to lesbian women who achieve orgasm 85% of the time.
E1Xw0 TIL that in 1880 barbed wire telephone lines brought isolated U.S. homesteaders together
e0dEL TIL many people would prefer administering electric shocks to themselves instead of being left alone with their thoughts.
dMmr TIL that after the Napoleonic Wars, a tobacco merchant named Joseph Williamson paid people in Edge hill, Liverpool to dig miles-long tunnels underground. The tunnels served no purpose, and he did so only to provide employment.