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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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b91v7 TIL that the circus theme is unfittingly titled "Entry of the Gladiators"
DQKBp TIL of Crayola's Law, which states: The number of Crayola crayon colors doubles every 28 years.
pYdNG TIL that a Pilot in 1990 was sucked out of the plane window for 20 minutes and survived.
9wpNM TIL that the timeframe between 9 BC and 9 AD is known as the "0s". The world population at the time is speculated to have been 150-300 million people, 3.75% of the population today.
jNyrv TIL of Kenneth E. Stager, an ornithologist who personally shot and killed all 58 feral pigs on Clipperton Island to save the booby population