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TIL Canada’s coastline is longer than the rest of the world’s coastline, combined.

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4XQ46 TIL that pastors don't always come up with their own sermons and there are sites online where they can use and even purchase other previously used sermons.
BrZLy TIL Color Blind people can see the differences in texture and brightness more intensely than normal people and were even used in WWII to spot camouflage.
691a7 TIL 'The Phantom of Heilbronn' was believed to be a female serial killer tied to 40 crimes, six of them murders. However, in 2009, it was discovered that the woman never existed, and her DNA found at crime scenes was just contamination from cotton swabs used for collecting samples.
aoxL TIL An Indian flight attendant saved American lives on a hijacked Pan Am flight by hiding their passports under seat cushions. She died while protecting children from gunfire
nWJ7Y TIL about Deep Lake, a lake in Antarctica that has such high salinity, 10 times saltier than the oceans, that it never freezes, even in the winter. Conditions in the lake are so hostile that almost nothing can survive there.