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TIL the deadliest weather event in Canadian history was not a storm or natural disaster, but a heat wave in June 2021 that killed 570 people

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grgQX TIL Kansai International Airport in Japan averages 20-30 million passengers a year and it has not lost a single piece of luggage since opening in 1994.
GYGlj TIL the only two surviving species of sloth aren’t closely related at all and most likely developed suspensorial behavior (hanging from trees) independently, an example of convergent evolution.
ZW9a TIL: the reason cats and snakes have vertical pupils is because it increases their depth perception while hunting at night while prey animals such as sheep have horizontal pupils so that they may have a panoramic view of their surroundings to watch for predators
oBXXY TIL that there's a town in Michigan called Zilwaukee, which was named so that people would confuse it with Milwaukee and move there to work
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