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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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PYXg TIL that a 67 million-year-old dinosaur mummy was found in 2007, a lot the body still in tact.
x01D TIL there’s a Scottish in-joke about the ‘wild haggis’. When polled, one third of US visitors to Scotland said they believed it was a real creature.
oRnaW TIL Chinese basketball giant Yao Ming was knowingly bred for the sport, forced into it against his will and subjected to years of dubious science to increase his height
9YPgQ TIL of the "World's Littlest Skyscraper", a building built in 1919 by a man who accepted $200,000 (in the 1910s) for it's construction, neglecting to point out to investors that the listed height of 480 was in inches, not feet.
mrOO TIL The NORAD Santa Tracker started as a typo in a Sears ad that listed the number to the RED PHONE at Air Defense Command as Santa’s Hotline and a Colonel that played along.