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TIL There are multiple islands in Canada larger than the entirety of Great Britain.

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4XZog TIL There's a theory that John Wilkes Booth wasn't killed after assassinating Abraham Lincoln, but that he actually escaped and lived under a pseudonyms for 38 more years -- and that his mummified body toured the country for decades after his true death in 1903.
rN0o4 Today I learned that Warsaw uses Mussels for water quality monitoring!
QJGJM TIL that the largest cavalry charge in history occurred during the 1683 Turkish siege of Vienna. The Polish king led 18,000 German and Polish Cavalry in a charge that broke the Ottomans line and won the battle. The king paraphrased caesar, saying "I came, I saw, God conquered"
b9D9 TIL Lindsay Lohan has been sentenced to 391 days in jail since 2007 and has only spent less than 2 weeks in actual jail.
p8kkG TIL that Lea Thompson (Back to the Future) studied ballet as a girl & danced professionally by the age of 14, winning multiple prestigious scholarships. Told she did not have the right body to become a prima ballerina by Mikhail Baryshnikov himself, she changed her focus to acting.