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TIL More people live in California than Canada.

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J1yeV TIL out of 50 largest hotels in the world, 25 of them is in Las Vegas
p8wLb TIL the former dictator of the Central African Republic, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, forced the nation's school children to buy expensive uniforms from a company he owned. When the children protested, he had 100 of them executed as an example.
Wkjdo TIL Billy Ripken’s 1989 Fleer baseball card has the words “F*ckFace” written on the bat due to a prank from teammates.
LMwv TIL that it would take a stack of 375,000 lego bricks (2x2) to cause the bottom brick to collapse, which represents a stack 3,591 meters in height.
5YBp TIL that on the date of April 13th, 2029, an astroid (Apophis) the size of Puerto Rico is expected to fly 18,600 miles above earths surface.