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TIL: Canada has its own particular version of The Onion called “The Beaverton”

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8eNE8 TIL the Association of German National Jews supported Hitler
x6jN5 TIL that airplane cabin pressures at cruising altitudes are around 11 to 12 pounds per square inch (PSI) which is lower than at ground level (14.7 PSI). This is similar to the pressure one experiences on a mountain that is between 6,000 to 8,000 feet high.
a8OnA TIL that David Cox and Steven Zucker, two graduate students from Princeton, developed an algorithm for the intersection numbers of sections of elliptic surfaces and named it the Cox-Zucker machine.
4Oe6 TIL in 1922, a fur trapper named Ben Cochrane was attacked by a pack of wolves in Manitoba. He shot and killed 7 wolves before running out of ammunition. He then beat 4 more to death, before his rifle finally broke in half. (Upper Right)
XE6y8 TIL that the definition of sport is so vague that things such as seeing who can throw a pillow the furthest are technically a sport.