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TIL, Kraft Dinner (Mac and Cheese) is a Canadian national dish. It is the most popular grocery item in the country.

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X0Go8 TIL Japan has been the top creditor in the world, holding the highest net external assets since 1990
BgaPe TIL about Craig Shergold, a former cancer patient who requested greeting cards to try and beat the record for "most greeting cards received". The number stood at 1,000,065. Shergold broke the record and obtained 350 million cards throughout his life until he requested for them to stop.
loV75 TIL about the Two Headed Boy of Bengal born in 1783. The second head was upside down with the neck pointed straight up. Shockingly, the second head was fully functional. This extremely rare type of parasitic twinning is known as Craniopagus parasiticus, occurring in about 2 to 3 of 5,000,000 births.
919Q TIL that the majority of computers do not measure time in hours or days but instead use “Unix Time” which is the exact number of seconds that have passed since January 1st 1970. The current Unix time is 1467042820.
gM79X TIL the top level domain in Kenya is .ke. The Kenyan government uses gov.ke, and Kenyan companies use co.ke :)