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TIL Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.

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0dwv5 TIL Legendary college basketball coach John Wooden never made more than $35,000 a year salary, including 1975, the year he won his 10th national championship, and never asked for a raise.
ojyR TIL of the “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum”, a sixteenth century medieval atlas with artistic hand drawn eyewitness maps of major world cities. Organized and compiled in the year 1570, it utilized the talent and works of several cartographers. The first traditional “world atlas”, it contains 53 maps.
ADRaa TIL that all Nouns are Capitalized in the German Language.
rNpRe TIL that Pule cheese is the most expensive cheese in the world, made from donkey milk and valued at around $600 per pound.
PY1kg TIL in 2003, the crew of a Chinese submarine died suddenly at sea and the sub drifted on its own for 10 days. Nobody knew anything was wrong until a fishing boat spotted the periscope.