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TIL the United States has a town entirely in Canada

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ZpeLp TIL that Hyochang Park in South Korea was originally used as a royal cemetery. Under Japanese rule, the cemetery was turned into a golf course, leaving the graves directly in the line of play. The park now contains a museum dedicated to Kim Koo, a leader in the independence movement against Japan.
loel5 TIL The word "piggyback" is just a screwed up play on "pick pack" --> "pick-a-back," which makes infinitely more sense than "piggyback."
4XRxo TIL in 2011 at a rural Western NY high school, 14 students came down with an illness: verbal outbursts, tics, seizures, and speech problems. Fears about the cause of the outbreak drew national media attention. One girl had Tourette syndrome. The rest had mass psychogenic illness: mass hysteria.
rNXwo TIL that chicken little is an anti nazi film to teach about the evils of mass hysteria.
GJjg TIL the original London Bridge was sold to the Chairman of an oil company, dismantled in Britain, and completely re-assembled in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.