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

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mLnO TIL The American English dialect of Appalachia or the “hillbilly accent” is the most suitable model for actors who want to imitate the accent in Shakespeare’s plays.
oxXo TIL Some insect wings have developed textures which physically shred bacteria to pieces
VMWkm TIL that there are more chickens on planet earth than humans
Z8ara Berezniki, in Russia's Ural mountains, is slowly disappearing into the ground. The industrial city, with a population of over 150,000, was built on top of a salt mine. Since the 1980s, huge craters have ripped the soil apart, gradually swallowing factories and offices, demolishing a school and tearing houses apart.
8KrV TIL that in Finland, nine out of ten plastic soft drink bottles are returned for re-use. Almost one hundred percent of all glass bottles are recycled – more than anywhere else in the world.