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TIL that the longest criminal trial in Canada was when the company responsible for Caillou committed major accounting fraud.

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Zw4B TIL that regardless of what service you get your weather information from, almost all of the data comes from the same place. NOAA has the only nationwide weather radar and operates the only weather satellites in the US. It freely distributes it’s information into the public domain.
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