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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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bKda TIL Seth Rogen testified before Congress to call for financing care for sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease and that he has a charity for the same called “Hilarity for Charity”
OGxPe TIL there is a Chinese book so deep and intricate that there is an entire field of study devoted to studying it
LEmm TIL - The only Jewish Community to not lose a single Person to the Holocaust was in the Greek island of Zakynthos - Nazi’s demanded the Bishop to write the names down but were handed a paper with only the Bishop’s and Mayor’s name on it
VMV8m TIL that the saying “put a sock in it” is believed to come from the early 20th century, when people would stuff socks into their gramophones (a device for recording, reproduction and sound), to make it quiet, because the gramophones did not have volume controls.
b9EBQ TIL that the fiancée of the future serial killer Paul Knowles visited a Psychic medium. The Medium warned her that her fiancée was a “dangerous man”, and she needs to leave him. She called off the wedding and cut off contact with Knowles