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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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R7N5Q TIL that only 14.5% of American men are 6 feet tall or taller. About 3% are taller than 6 feet 2 inches. Interestingly however, 58% of CEOs in the U.S. are over 6 feet.
QJWJa TIL In 1944 Franklin Roosevelt was gifted a letter opener made out of the arm bone of a Japanese soldier but had to return it due to the shock and outrage it caused in Japan and the U.S.
O996 TIL in the 80’s, Australian beer companies had to change the design of their bottles so a species of beetle would stop trying to mate with them
YpOnZ TIL an actor accidentally slit his own throat on stage while performing a suicide scene in a play based on Mary, Queen of Scots. The prop knife he was supposed to have used had been switched with a real one. If he’d cut a little deeper, he would have died.
XEQdk TIL Borat never actually filmed in a village in Kazakhstan, the village was actually in Romania, and the villagers were angry when they found out Borat had duped them after they were shown the film by visitors