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TIL MacLean's magazine ranked Sir Mackenzie Bowell as Canada’s greatest bearded prime minister. It was polar bear white and somehow, despite being considerably wider than his face, a near-perfect half-circle

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D7xV TIL that during the 1904 Summer Olympics Marathon, a Cuban postman who arrived last minute came in 4th despite running in street clothes that he cut into shorts and falling ill after eating rotten apples during a break he took in an orchard.
Gpv1 TIL that heart attacks in women often cause pain in the back or jaw, NOT the chest or left arm.
epA5k TIL about Right-wing spin doctor, Frank Luntz.
kOboe TIL the word “loot” came from Hindi and Sanskrit on India during colonial times until England adopted it into the English language
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