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TIL: That you weigh less if you visit certain areas of Canada, namely the Hudson Bay Area and parts of Quebec, because there’s less gravity there than other parts of the world.

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lPRB TIL English words for livestock (cow, sheep) are Germanic-based and the words for meats (beef, mutton) are French-based because in the Middle Ages the people who raised the animals were Anglo-Saxon peasants and the people who ate them were Norman aristocrats
9YBaG TIL of a city in the U.S. called George, Washington. The name was chosen by Charlie Brown, a local pharmacist, to honour the first U.S. president.
v1Xr TIL Biocentrism is the theory that life creates the universe: space and time are merely tools of the human (and animal) mind.
P1QMV TIL the late Jerry and Rita Alter, a suburban New Mexico couple, allegedly stole Willem de Kooning's Woman-Ochre from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in 1985 and kept the $160 million artwork on the wall behind their bedroom door until it was found there after Rita died in 2017.
LkbKV TIL: Due to the UK's share of the global Forex market, more money passes through London each day than all of North America and Continental Europe combined