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TIL Most Canadian mortgages on homes are 5 years. Their amortization is 30 years. Mortgages themselves are 5 years and then you need to refinance. If rates have gone higher you are financing into higher monthly payments. Yikes!

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Rpjl TIL during the filming of Maidstone (1970) actor Rip Torn struck fellow actor Norman Mailer with a hammer, resulting in a brawl between the actors in which Mailer bit into Torn’s ear and Torn furiously choked Mailer on the ground. The scene was captured on camera and is in the final cut of the film
9wV1D TIL the founder of an AI girlfriend app, Replika, was inspired by a dystopian Black Mirror episode where a woman resurrects her dead boyfriend with AI, which goes horribly wrong.
wLRP7 TIL that Formosa Province in Argentina is the antipode with Taiwan, which was historically also known as Formosa. European sailors speaking different languages gave the same name to two areas at exact opposite points of the Earth.
bYgE TIL in almost every adaptation of Dora the Explorer outside the US and UK, Dora teaches English, not Spanish.
4XD75 TIL in April of 1968, Jane Elliot did a racial experiment where she turned her third grade class of students against one another based solely on the color of their eyes.