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TIL that Canada produces over half of the world's lentils.

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6E1W8 TIL that on 18 february 1478, George Plantagenet -1st Duke of Clarence- was executed after revolting against his brother King Edward IV. Rumours soon spread he chose the method of execution himself: drowned in a butt of malmsey wine.
VMYBD TIL nearly 2,500 atomic weapons have been detonated on Earth - 520 of them atmospheric. In 1958 alone, the US detonated 75 weapons. 928 were detonated in Nevada as late as 1992.
l8Nr TIL that an increase in how much your older cat meows can be a sign of Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome (CDS), a disorder similar to dementia in humans.
oRpGo TIL the Irish sport of Hurling once had large following in Argentina and South Africa that dropped due the World Wars and the inability to ship out the proper ash wood for the hurls.
rLVw TIL that the “Red Zone” in France, where some of the most intense combat from WW1 took place, is utterly uninhabitable. Countless undetonated chemical weapons and explosives riddle the earth which, along with the tons of human remains, have rendered the soil and water highly toxic.