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TIL that curling originated in Scotland

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GAKN1 TIL Author Octavia E. Butler used "Make America Great Again" as the presidential campaign slogan for the dictator Andrew Steele Jarret in her 1998 dystopian novel, Parable of the Talents.
X0AvP TIL that Gatorade is similar in composition to a medical rehydration solution.
p8Jge TIL: Most Canadians can just email or text eachother money. All the major Canadian banks offer services from a company called Interac which include debit and e transfer services, the latter can be sent to an email address or by text message, most banks do not charge for the service.
VPVZ TIL in 1861 a 43-day storm flooded northern and southern California for 6 months.
WEXo TIL that the two ethnic groups, the Hutus and the Tutsis, in the Rwandan Genocide were designated by European colonists somewhat arbitrarily. A Hutu could become a Tutsi by acquiring ten cows.