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TIL that doctors in British Columbia are forbidden from talking about hockey during surgery.

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vG0D TIL that honey is a natural reservoir for the Botulism bacteria. Adult bodies can normally process it. This is why you shouldn’t give babies honey.
gMLj8 TIL that during WWII the Japanese launched 1000s of balloon bombs towards North America. Only a few hundred of the devices have been found.
nR5b TIL that Michigan and Ohio almost went to war over a small strip of land and the city of Toledo
9wwop TIL that the American inventor Isaac Newton Lewis—creator of the Lewis Gun used by America and her allies in WWI—turned down more than $1.2 million in royalties for his invention, equivalent to $35.5 million in 2022 terms
VBWBp TIL that the "do" in the name Hokkaido is 道 as in "province" or "road", not 島 as in "island" (which sounds similar in Chinese but not in Japanese)