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TIL that Canada consumes the most doughnuts and has the most doughnut shops per capita of any country in the world

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kpO5 TIL that, in 200 BCE, Eratosthenes measured the Earth’s circumference to an accuracy of 98.4% by measuring the angle of the sun in two different cities
5V5rr TIL the board game Clue is called Cluedo outside of the US because it’s a pun with the game Ludo, which in the US is known as Parcheesi so the pun wouldn’t work.
mxwjY TIL: Scientists in India found a new species of pit vipers and named it after Salazar Slytherin. The new species is called Salazar’s spit viper.
j6Mpa TIL Chad Butler, aka the rapper Pimp C, studied classical music in school and received a Division I rating on a tenor solo at a UIL choir competition. His stepdad taught him to read music, influencing him to incorporate more musical instruments into his rap songs over the course of his career
N7o11 TIL of German physicist Max von Laue whose opposition to the Nazi regime is famous. Beyond the story of him melting his Nobel medal he also tended to carry parcels in his hands just to avoid giving the Hitler Salute