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

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b69Bp TIL in 1944, countries agreed with the US to settle their international accounts in dollars to have gold converted at a fixed rate of $35 per ounce. In 1971, President Nixon announced the US would no longer do it, thus completely abandoning the gold standard. This was known as the 'Nixon Shock'.
4kLb6 TIL Convicted felon in the Watergate Scandal, G. Gordon Liddy, played an antagonist called "Satori-san" in the 1990 syndicated show Super Force
J1J8l TIL there was a town in Austria named "Fucking" for over 800 years until 2020 when they they decided to change it to something less provocative due to all the non-stop jokes
6d1W TIL when Hiroshi Yamauchi released the Gamecube he believed that people “do not play with the game machine itself. They play with the software, and they are forced to purchase a game machine in order to use the software.” Nintendo then priced the Gamecube significantly cheaper than the PS2 and Xbox.
BrRRW TIL that Norman Borlaug saved more than a billion lives with a "miracle wheat" that averted mass starvation, becoming 1 of only 5 people to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Congressional Gold Medal. He said, "Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world."