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TIL that Quebec's provincial pension fund owns nearly 20% of the international circus act Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, founding in Quebec

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gMXpy TIL: Susan Bennet, the voice of Siri, didn't even know she had been chosen for Siri, and was only able to get the job because the previous voice-over artist selected for it was absent at the time she was needed. She learned she was Siri when a friend contacted her in October 2011.
6KKl TIL there is a 42% decrease in air quality throughout the US on 4th July as a result of firework displays
aw1RJ TIL that dozens of Adam Sandler movies are connected by a web of characters and obscure references. Someone coined it the Sandlerverse.
GYQQ5 TIL Zoroastrianism, a minority religion today in Iran, is one of the world's oldest religions still in existence, pre-dates the birth of both Christianity and Islam by centuries, and was once the official religion of the Persian Empire.
a8eDL TIL Christa McAuliffe, who was the teacher who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger, was 1 of 11,000 applicants in NASA's search to find an "ordinary person" to put their first civilian in space. She later remarked, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat. Just get on."