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TIL that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Canada declared war on Japan before the United States did.

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gDK7 TIL that Ryan Reynolds only became interested in Deadpool after finding out that the character referred to his scarred appearance as “Ryan Reynolds crossed with a Shar-Pei”
VWwQ TIL if people worship other gods, the Bible says you must not only kill those people, but kill everyone else in the town, and their animals, then take all of the town’s possessions to the middle of the public square, then burn all of the possessions, then burn the whole town down, and never rebuild.
Lwr9 TIL Tom Hanks turned down the role of Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption because he chose to star in Forrest Gump instead
kO1R5 TIL of the Dunning–Kruger effect, where dumb people tend to over-estimate their own intelligence, when in fact they’re not even competent enough to recognize their own ineptitude.
oBAE8 TIL the name titmouse comes from the Scandinavian “tit” (small) and the Old English “mase” (bird), literally “small bird”