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TIL Canada has a Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve- much like the US has a strategic reserve of gasoline

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9Y9e6 TIL Outlaws Bonnie and Clyde would often kidnap people, but drop them off with enough money to get home. After they found out one kidnap victim was an undertaker Bonnie laughed and said he would likely work on her body one day. He did exactly that.
b6oBa TIL that from 2000 to 2020 the world’s wealth more than tripled, going from $440 trillion to $1,540 trillion.
mZjo TIL 2,000 year-old seeds were discovered in Israel around 1965 to be held in storage for the next 40 years. After they were planted, a tree that has been extinct for 1,800 years sprouted.
J0ek TIL, in 1968, American tycoon Robert P. McCulloch bought London Bridge for $2,460,000 and transported it brick by brick to Lake Havasu City, Arizona
KOkKB TIL of Rumwold of Buckingham, who in 662 purportedly made a profession of Christian faith, requested baptism, delivered a sermon on the Holy Trinity, and died - at three days old.