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TIL Ontario, Canada has a native Lizard called the Five-Lined Skink.

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yVrNM TIL commercials for prescription drugs were effectively banned from American television until the FDA eased restrictions in 1997
E1YQP TIL In 1953, after the shooting ended in the Korean War, the Americans dropped leaflets offering $100,000 to any North Korean pilot who landed a MiG-15 in South Korea. A defector arrived soon after and the plane was impounded and meticulously examined. Chuck Yeager was among the first to fly it.
DQVMD TIL That Samsung started as a grocery store.
xR1g TIL Elon Musk was heavily bullied as a child, and once a group of boys threw him down a flight of stairs and beat him until he was unconscious.
9YvXr TIL: McDonald's used to have a mascot named Captain Crook who stole Filet-O-Fish sandwiches, as opposed to the Hamburglar's hamburger thievery.