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TIL Star Trek was broadcast in Canada first, before America

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rRo4o TIL The world’s first Chinatown was established in Manila in 1594. In 1861, a villager from the Chinese province of Fujian sailed to Philippines. He would become the great-grandfather of the first female Philippines president, Corazon Cojuangco Aquino
rjR1 TIL that in 1980, the British Columbia Supreme Court ruled that God is not a person
E1vvo TIL that two of the biggest moments of the 20th century - the first successful climb of Mt. Everest and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II - happened within a week of each other and made international news on the same day
4X9kw TIL in Scrabble, The Word "OXYPHENBUTAZONE" is Theoretically the Highest Possible Scoring Word, Netting 1778 Points. It Has Never Been Played.
VBv1B TIL: Leonidas of Rhodes, ancient Greek runner whose record of most individual Olympic victories was unbroken until 2016 by Michael Phelps