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TIL the province of Quebec was renamed by the British after its capital city. Prior to that, it was simply called “Canada” by the French

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M7NBW TIL that Bell Labs, a research company that has contributed to many significant inventions, including transistors, lasers and solar cells, and whose work has been awared nine Nobel Prizes, is currently owned by Nokia
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