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TIL Kraft Dinner is a Canadian only thing

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v11aB TIL Scientist Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski survived being shot in the face by a particle accelerator beam
KYBJa TIL Emily Rosa at age nine became the youngest person to have a research paper published in a peer reviewed medical journal. She devised a single-blind protocol to determine if therapeutic touch practitioners could actually detect "human energy fields." She found they were right only 44% of the time
lkG5 TIL that the Canadian Flag that flies over the Peace Tower of the Canadian Parliament is changed daily. Used flags are then given away. Any Canadian resident may request one of these flags but the current waiting period is 63 years.
MeNXa TIL John Wayne wore a toupee beginning in about 1948. Wayne felt more confident wearing his toupee and never denied it. He often joked saying "It's not phony, it's real hair. Of course, it's not mine, but it's real."
PYPrG TIL that the Nazi Party was particularly fond of decaffeinated coffee, as it saw caffeine as a poison that "threatened the Aryan Race."