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

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lokBK TIL The cockroach can live without food for one month and 45 minutes without air; if we tear off cockroach head, it can live another 7 days because most of the nerve cells are located in cockroach abdomen. They are about five times more resistant to radiation than humans.
QJlRM TIL that a 102-year-old German woman became a doctor 77 years after Nazis banned her dissertation.
4XGd5 TIL that when Hurricane Ivan was in the Gulf of Mexico in 2004, pressure sensors on the ocean floor detected a freak wave 91 feet tall. Computer simulations suggested that at the storm's peak as a Category 5 it was producing waves over 130 feet high.
Km1w TIL that American Space Shuttle Astronaut John Grunsfeld, while in orbit, called in to NPR’s Car Talk posing as a stumped caller.
e0WNg TIL Cruise lines pay almost no taxes thanks to a maritime law loophole called "flags of convenience". Despite being headquartered in Miami, RCL and NCLH have all of their ships registered in the Bahamas. CCL has all of its ships registered in Panama.