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TIL that under the Articles of Confederation, Canada could join at any time

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YZGZ TIL that when CS Lewis went to an elite English boarding school in 1913, he found that homosexual relationships among students were “not [frowned upon as seriously as] wearing one’s coat unbuttoned.”
A9ag TIL That unwashed eggs still have their protective coating, the bloom, and are safe to store on the counter. Many modern countries wash eggs before sale so they ‘look’ cleaner and safer, but this opens the pores of the shell for infection from bacteria during storage time.
GYVr4 TIL social network Bebo was bought by AOL for US$850 million. 5 years later, the original owners bought it back for US$1 million.
dZN7 TIL A Bahraini Princess eloped with an American Marine she met in a shopping mall.
N7Qeb TIL that in 1955, Quaker Oats gave away free land deeds as part of a cereal promotion. Participants could mail in their cereal box to redeem a plot of land sized 1 inch x 1 inch in a gold-rush region of Canada.