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TIL in Canada you can serve a prison sentence on weekends.

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e09mJ TIL that the photons that light up the earth are not 8 min. 20 sec old but thousands of years old trapped inside the Sun and recently freed.
krye TIL There are stray dogs in Russia who figured out how to use the subway to find food in more populated areas!
voXK TIL: Woolly mammoths were still around when they were building the pyramids. In school they taught woolly mammoths were around during the ice age, tens if thousands of years ago, in fact they were around a lot longer than that, up until 1700B.C. 900 years after the first pyramid began construction.
VBBBG TIL that Harambe’s mother, only full brother, and two of his half siblings were killed when a tub of wet chlorine tablets was left by a space heater. The toxic fumes were blown into the gorilla enclosure and killed the four gorillas.
Z87lY TIL of ‘The Matrix defense’. A form of The Insanity Defence in which the defendant claims that they committed a crime because they believed they were in the Matrix. i.e: “This isn’t even the real world, man. How can I actually commit a crime?”