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TIL 8% of Canadians have had sex in a canoe.

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R7E6l TIL During the "cash for clunkers" program of 2009, the government provided CARFAX vehicle identification numbers (VIN) of the 700,000 clunkers that consumers turned in at dealerships. By law, these cars must have their engines taken out and destroyed, and the rest of the metal scrapped.
6E11Y TIL A turquoise lake in Siberia is nicknamed the "Novosibirsk Maldives" because of how tropical it looks. Popular with Instagrammers, it is actually a power plant's ash dump and caused by calcium salts and other metal oxides
xV5B0 TIL McDonald's French Fry in the USA has 14 ingredients, in the UK (and the rest of Europe) it has 4 ingredients
VBJvD TIL After leaving NASA in 1971, Neil Armstrong named his farm for a valley described in "The Lord of the Rings" and chose an email address with a Tolkien theme. There is a theory he based his One Small Step quote on "The Hobbit"
6EMpJ TIL that Louisiana's Airline Highway was so named because it runs relatively straight--and only later, two major airports were built alongside it.